Scaling Out An Online Gaming Application With Terracotta

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This article describes how online web community and gaming site XuQa achieved the scalability to service their more than one million users with Terracotta.

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As XuQa's popularity and traffic increased, it strained to meet
service level agreements (SLA's) in terms of scalability, high-availability (H/A), and resilience to failure. Says Prosper Nwankpa, CTO of XuQa, "we really needed to address our availability and scale-out issues quickly. Whatever we used had to be a solution that we could deploy quickly, and it could not disrupt the rapid pace of our new feature work. Terracotta solved the scale-out and availability problems and gave us a lot more time to work on customer-facing capabilities."

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