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by NocV 3261 days ago
From the first part of the series.

  While I am aware of more than a few companies that are containerising their game servers and running them in production, I am not aware of any that are doing so on Kubernetes.
I believe Pokemon GO is using Kubernetes, which is one of the biggest multiplayer mobile games in the world at the moment.

Link: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/bringing-Pokemo...
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markmandel 3261 days ago
In response to this - afaik, there is no evidence that Pokemon Go is running stateful game simulation servers for their game, especially those that would power something like an FPS or MMO (They may be, but I've not seen any public evidence of it), which is what I'm referring to in this article. Sounds like I should have been clearer on this point, as you aren't the first to point this out.
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NocV 3261 days ago
Yeah, i never implied the Pokemon GO server was stateful (and it definitely isn't) in the way that other MMOs/FPSs that require persistent connections are. However, you can't say that it isn't a "game server".

I looked through comments to see if anyone had pointed it out and didn't see anything. Figured maybe you'd be interested to know that Kubernetes was used for something so massive. My bad.

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markmandel 3261 days ago
No worries - and thanks for pointing it out (I meant you weren't the first person to say this to me). It's worth the clarification.

It's an interesting differentiation in vocabulary between the games industry and what would be the wider technical community, in my experience - a "game server" is a simulation server when talking about it in the games industry. I should have made a note of that in the previous article.

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