EDUCATION & TRAINING
Unpacking the Hidden Pitfalls of Veltrix Engine Configuration
Dev.to Machine Learning
About This Tutorial
The Problem We Were Actually Solving The problem was simple: we needed to scale our event notifications to thousands of concurrent players, while maintaining a less-than-10-second latency for notification delivery. Sounds straightforward, right? But the solution space was vast, and our initial approach was doomed from the start. We threw everything but the kitchen sink at the problem - we overengineered our stream processor, cranked up the CPU utilization on our Lambda functions, and even resorted to a makeshift pub-sub system that looked like it belonged in a 2015 GitHub repository.