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Scopely Drives Revenue by Reducing API Response Time with Help from New Relic
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
- Software
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
- Process Control & Optimization
- Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Data Science Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
The Challenge
Scopely, a mobile gaming company, is on a fast track of growth. In just two years, the company has released six live games and has several more in development. With each new game, Scopely aims to increase its market share by attracting new audiences. This strategy has resulted in a larger network of non-competing users, translating into higher revenue. However, it also translates into heavier traffic. With the popularity of Scopely’s newest releases, the company is handling nearly two billion API requests per week. This level of popularity means that Scopely needs to be extra-vigilant in maintaining the performance of its applications. The company needs a solution that can help it monitor and optimize the performance of its applications to handle the increasing traffic and ensure optimal user experience.
About The Customer
Scopely is a company that co-develops and publishes multi-player mobile social applications. Founded in 2011, the company aims to be the 'HBO of mobile gaming,' collaborating with top developers to create, distribute, and monetize mobile game franchises for millions of active users. To date, Scopely has raised $8.5 million in seed financing, with support from A-list investors including Anthem Venture Partners, the Chernin Group, Greycroft Venture Partners, and New Enterprise Associates. Scopely is hosted on Amazon, relying on a number of Amazon Web Services (AWS) including the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Relational Database Service (RDS), DynamoDB, and Simple Queue Service (SQS). Scopely’s backend runs the .NET Framework on Microsoft Windows using C#, with native frontends in iOS and Android.
The Solution
Scopely has been using New Relic since its inception. Initially, when Scopely was developing Facebook apps in PHP, New Relic helped optimize performance. When Scopely transitioned to a mobile gaming model and began using C# and .NET on the backend, it continued to use New Relic for monitoring apps. New Relic is currently installed across Scopely’s backend infrastructure, enabling developers to identify slow queries and other issues before users even know anything’s wrong. New Relic offers insight at the holistic level, monitoring the entire lifecycle of an API request. This end-to-end visibility into performance is something that other solutions, which monitor various components in isolation, do not offer. The New Relic dashboard, database-level reporting, and error reporting are especially useful features for Scopely.
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