Keeping kids happy: How Roblox uses containers to deliver smiles to over 90 million gamers

Rob Cameron and Lisa-Marie Namphy explain how containers are keeping your kids happy. Roblox maintains availability and performance of a platform used by over 90 million gamers each month. Kids and teens all over the world create the games, and little did they know, they're all container experts. (Or at least, their games are in good hands because of containers.)

Containers are keeping your kids happy. Roblox maintains availability and performance of a platform used by over 90 million gamers each month. It uses container orchestration to manage gaming workloads that scale to thousands of nodes spread across the globe, delivering the best possible gaming experience for its players. Roblox created a solution that also prevents data loss in the case of large-scale failures. Rob Cameron and Lisa-Marie Namphy explain how Roblox tackled the challenge of running stateful services without sacrificing critical resiliency and redundancy. It discovered how to scale to millions of users without scaling a storage platform and guarding against loss of service for its players. Rob and Lisa-Marie detail the innovative environment built leveraging containers to run gaming infrastructure at a massive global scale.