{"id":8661,"date":"2012-12-09T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T22:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8661"},"modified":"2012-12-09T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T22:03:17","slug":"for-riot-games-big-data-is-serious-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8661","title":{"rendered":"For Riot Games, Big Data Is Serious Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Once Riot Games opened up a European base of operations, it couldn\u2019t fit all its data into one instance of mySQL. \u201cSo we created a separate instance. That was a bad precedent and we needed to change that,\u201d Livingston added. \u201cWe moved quickly to Hadoop as a scalable low-cost storage system. We use Hive to overlay an SQL-type interface on top of the Hadoop File System.\u201d That helped scale up, but \u201cthe downside is that it takes a long time to spin up to do your queries, some taking a minute or more to complete, so it is difficult to iterate and build complex queries using Hive.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/topic\/bi\/for-riot-games-big-data-is-serious-business\/\">For Riot Games, Big Data Is Serious Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Part of the challenge is to maintain a level playing field for all players, yet constantly tweaking game play and game mechanics to make it more interesting for returning players: \u201cWe need lots of insight so that competitive play will continue to happen. We don\u2019t want different versions of the game for pros and noobs, for example.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once Riot Games opened up a European base of operations, it couldn\u2019t fit all its data into one instance of mySQL. \u201cSo we created a separate instance. That was a bad precedent and we needed to change that,\u201d Livingston added. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8661\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[532,475,553,661],"class_list":["post-8661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-analytics","tag-big-data","tag-data-mining","tag-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8665,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661\/revisions\/8665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}