Suddenly, the game went viral and there was a 520% increase in users in just two weeks. In the early days Jelly Button had a million daily unique users and, for a while, all was going well. In the end we decide to work with a third party MongoDB hosting service to manage our database. MongoDB was the clear choice, though at the time, we didn’t know much about the operational aspects of running it. However, we knew that a relational database would not provide the scale, agility and performance needed to make a game like Pirate Kings successful. Our team originally had experience with relational database technologies. Challenges of a third party database hosting service While today everything is running smoothly, the path to success wasn’t always nicely paved - we had to fight our own battles to win the day. !( "Pirate Kings")Īfter upgrading to MongoDB Professional and Cloud Manager, we have scaled to easily manage 70 million users with 60% cost savings compared to our previous MongoDB hosting provider. Most users notice the palm trees, glimmers of gold, and the quality of the animation, but few think about the tools working behind the scenes to make the game operate seamlessly. Pirate Kings is a fully realized world where over 70 million pirates battle it out to conquer exotic islands in a quest of gold, artifacts and revenge. I’m Shai Zonis, a senior server developer at Jelly Button for the game Pirate Kings. Founded in 2011, Jelly Button has grown from the five original founders to more than 85 employees. Jelly Button Games is a free-to-play mobile gaming company based in Tel Aviv, Israel that focuses on building original games that are mobile-friendly, multi-platform, and allow people to play together no matter where in the world they are located. 70 million pirates battle it out on MongoDB
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