GOTO Night: ElasticSearch FTW

Cost Free of charge
Snacks & refreshments included
Speaker Jesper Richter-Reichhelm

Jesper Richter-Reichhelm - ElasticSearch FTW

Abstract
What would you do if you knew exactly what kind of service you need to solve a specific problem, but it simply doesn’t exist? Two years ago we had this exact problem: we needed a service to handle exceptions and crashes of mobile games but not one service on the market was useful to handle ops really well. Not sure how you would decide, but our solution was to start building our own service to solve that problem.

Along the way we iterated a lot. Those iterations involved relational databases that didn’t scale, overly complex Erlang code that no one could ever understand (or fix!) and the attempt to use the hippest React and ES6 stuff in a team, that was not prepared to handle it.Guess what? We struggled! Luckily we had also added ElasticSearch to our set-up and noticed, that this was actually the only thing we actually really needed. So we radically simplified our setup and since two years now ElasticSearch is the "backend" for the error reporting for all our games, that are played by millions of live users. And it simply works.

In this talk I will tell you the whole story, how our service looks today and what lessons we've learned while building it.

Bio
Jesper works as Head of Engineering at Wooga, one of the most popular developers of mobile games in the world. It's his job to make sure that developers can work happily and efficiently and usually he does that by letting those who know things best make their own decisions: the developers themselves.
Jesper is passionate about playing and working on games as well as developing highly scalable software that is used by millions of players. He also loves sharing his knowledge and passion at conferences.

Twitter: @jrirei

By the way: we will raffle one GOTO Berlin 2016 conference ticket! ;)