Online competitive gaming company A5 Labs faced scalability and maintenance issues in its legacy gaming applications. Leveraging its Golang expertise, Gophers Lab helped the client improve their back-end architecture by modularizing it. The solution allowed A5 Labs to maintain, deploy independently, and scale back-end services. As a result, the client could develop new variations of the games to meet the current customer needs and attract more users.

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About The Customer

A5 Labs develops and hosts online Poker & other casino games for their customers worldwide. They are pioneers in data, machine learning, and blockchain innovations for the next generation of competitive online games.

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Customer Challenges

The customer was facing the following challenges in scaling its legacy gaming applications to meet present-day demands:

• The back-end services were tightly coupled with other services, which made them difficult to deploy and scale separately
• Most of the back-end services were hosted in a single git repository, and they all had to be deployed in a single server
• Any minor bug fixes in a single service required shutting down all back-end services and redeploying all of them

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Solution Implemented

Gophers Lab helped the A5 Labs by implementing the following solution:

• Reorganizing the source code so that its back-end services could be maintained, tested, and deployed separately without bringing down other services
• Added Open-telemetry to its legacy applications so that these services could be monitored in NewRelic
• Continuously working on improving the architecture and refactoring legacy applications so that it is modular, easy to scale, and maintain
• Working on new requirements and developing variations of Poker and other casino games

Technology Stack Business Results

The solution implemented by Gophers Lab helped A5 Labs achieve the following results:

• Improved the back-end architecture to make it maintainable and scalable
• Enabled the development of new variations of Poker games, resulting in more users for the platform