Engineering for 40,000: The Minecraft Case Study | DataMasters 2026 Episode 1
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Join us this Saturday, February 7, 2026, from 7:00 – 8:00 PM (PHT) for another DEP DataMasters talk:
🖥️ Topic: A Deep Dive on the Data Challenges of Hosting a 40K-Player Minecraft Server
🎤 Speaker: Simonee Ezekiel
Most servers crash at 100 players. This server hosted 40,000. 🧱
Simonee will be pulling back the curtain on the behind-the-scenes data hurdles that come with hosting a community of this scale.
Rather than claiming to have all the perfect answers, he will be sharing the honest, "in-the-trenches" challenges of massive database loading and bottlenecks that only appear at this scale.
It’s a rare look at the data engineering side of gaming that usually stays hidden. If you’ve ever wondered what actually happens under the hood when a server gets that big, you won't want to miss this one.
👨💻 About the Speaker:
A server administrator with more than seven years in the Minecraft space, Simonee is a Computer Science student at UPLB and owner of the economy survival server called HearthCraft.