fargate-game-servers VS grouparoo

AWS - GameTech

Visit https://aws.amazon.com/gametech/ to get started today!

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.

Reverse ETL is on AirByte's roadmap under the "Future / Not prioritized" section. I wanted to use Grouparoo as a short term solution, but the repo was archived and I think they stopped taking new cloud customers (unknown if this is wrong/outdated).

There are other tools that we will have to adopt in the future but haven’t yet due to lack of necessity. Specifically, one category that is popular in modern data stacks is Reverse ETL (Hightouch, Census, or Grouparoo). We currently don’t have a usecase for piping data back into 3rd party tools but it will definitely come up in the future.

Reverse ETL: Grouparoo, Castled

Grouparoo, the open source Reverse ETL tool we are building, does all of these things. https://www.grouparoo.com

Ingestion / ETL: Airbyte, Singer, Jitsu Transformation: dbt Orchestration: Airflow, Dagster Testing: GreatExpectations Observability: Monosi Reverse ETL: Grouparoo, Castled Visualization: Lightdash, Superset

Grouparoo | Remote (US) | Remote-OK | https://www.grouparoo.com

Grouparoo is a venture-backed software company building open source data tools that make data reliable, accessible, and actionable. We’re empowering teams to make great customer experiences, driven by data. While engineering teams have gotten good at storing and generating data about their customers, it’s rare that this data is used to its full potential in external applications. Grouparoo makes these integrations easy by providing a framework for defining your customer data and reliably syncing it to external tools.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/grouparoo

Here are our open roles:

- Senior Backend / Lead Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/grouparoo/6ba485d1-a5a4-41f0-9fa5-920a...

- Developer Advocate: https://jobs.lever.co/grouparoo/5e1531b4-7ec8-4c10-8e52-fc23...

Tech Stack: TypeScript / Javascript / Node.js, ActionHero, React + Next.js, Postgres & Redis, and whole lot of third-party APIs!

Congrats on the launch! Hightouch looks great and this need is real. Things seem to be going well, so I don't think I'm taking too much away by mentioning that we have been been working on Grouparoo, an open source alternative that solves similar pain points.

A few differences: git developer workflow focused (branches, CI, PRs, etc), ability to self host, segmentation in destinations (tagging people in mailchimp based on rules, for example)

https://www.grouparoo.com

We are building Grouparoo. Obviously, it's a biased sample but we are seeing a few trends at play.

Has anyone heard or used of reverse etl or Hightouch or open sourced Grouparoo?