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Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Posted by Luke Stone, Director of Customer Reliability EngineeringGoogle CloudNiantic

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The Google Cloud GKE/Kubernetes team that supports many of our customers like Niantic

The Pokémon GO game world was brought to life using over a dozen services across Google Cloud.

Pokémon GO was the largest Kubernetes deployment on Google Container Engine ever. Due to the scale of the cluster and accompanying throughput, a multitude of bugs were identified, fixed and merged into the open source project.

To support Pokémon GO’s massive player base, Google provisioned many tens of thousands of cores for Niantic’s Container Engine cluster.

Google’s global network helped reduce the overall latency for Pokémon Trainers inhabiting the game’s shared world. Game traffic travels Google’s private fiber network through most of its transit, delivering reliable, low-latency experiences for players worldwide. Even under the sea!