fargate-game-servers VS tagger

AWS - GameTech

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Even if BSG came out tomorrow and publicly released their entire server topology/infrastructure, then said "here's what's consistently failing under too much load; somebody with expertise please help us fix it", there'd still be 10+ people all making blanket suggestions like "jUsT pUT iT In ThE ClOuD!!! It's this easy!", without a single iota of a nuance or a detailed solution offered. As if it's just a matter of calling fucking CDW or something and having their "experts" migrate your product into your elastic computing partner of choice over a weekend, JFC.

Also curious, maybe it was mentioned by Scott in an interview. Amazon Game Tech has many hosting solutions not just EKS.

Amazon Web Services (AWS - Game Technologies group)| Various roles | Seattle (though currently WFH) | Full-time, Onsite | https://aws.amazon.com/gametech/

I am the senior manager (skip-level manager) for these roles so feel free to email me with questions (contact info in my profile). We have multiple mid-level (experience expected) software development engineering roles open. We work on cutting edge tech that helps games and simulations run on AWS and scale in ways they couldn't alone. I am looking for people with distributed service development (we do most of this in Java), and game engine/game dev experience (preferred Unreal). We're building an all new AWS service, solving hard technical problems, and we get to have games as a customer, which is pretty awesome to me.

Links: (service focused SDE role) https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1365397/software-development..., (game engine role) https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1365399/software-development...

Game Server Hosting on AWS Fargate This repository contains an example solution on how to scale a fleet of game servers on AWS Fargate on Elastic Container Service and route players to game sessions using a Serverless backend. Game Server data is stored in ElastiCache Redis. All resources are deployed with Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation, Serverless Application Model, Docker and bash/powershell scripts. By leveraging AWS Fargate for your game servers you don't need to manage the underlying virtual machines.

For me personally, it was my first year working full time as a developer and I enjoyed it a lot. I had the opportunity to learn and use Java libraries like jOOQ and Vavr. (if you use Java and haven't tried them, give them a shot! ). Furthermore, I wrote my first Python tool (Tagger) and summarized my experience here. Aside from all the pandemic-related issues this year was pretty exciting for me and I'm curious to read about your accomplishments in the comments!

tagger is an open source tool from Tobias Haindl that will help you to stay on top of your AWS resource tagging. Tobias has also written this great post that shows you how you can use this tool to report/audit on your current tagging coverage, and then use it to update/apply tags to your resources. I think this is going to be a very popular tool, as good tagging hygiene is foundational to good Cloud governance and management.

A short summary of lessons I learned from writing my first python packages: taggercore and taggercli. More infos about them can be found here: