The Number One Educational Resource for the Game Industry
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Overview:
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At the heart of the PlayStation ecosystem, a mission-critical service is responsible for a single, vital function: confirming every player's access to their games and digital content. For a platform with over 350 million user accounts, this entitlement system must be flawless, instant, and always available. As PlayStation's user base and content library grew, the decade-old legacy data architecture was pushed to its breaking point. Faced with spiraling costs and performance bottlenecks that directly impacted their most loyal players, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) needed more than just a new databasethey needed a new paradigm. This is the story of how SIE migrated its planet-scale entitlement system to Google Cloud Spanner, a database uniquely designed for this class of problem, achieving a 10x reduction in storage and a 50% drop in costs, all with zero downtime.
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