1. Cloud Platform Can Offer Needed Scalability to Handle the Next Big Hit in Social Gaming
MINI-CASE STUDY
“The Microsoft Azure platform has made it so easy for us to reliably scale our applications for millions of users. All the time we used to spend managing servers and worrying about user growth is now spent on building apps.” – Vikas Manocha, CEO and Founder, 101 Apps
SITUATION
101 Apps needed a platform that would scale based on the demand for a new game. In the world of social gaming, it’s hard to predict the demand. You need to be ready to scale very quickly if a game becomes popular. 101 Apps also needed a back end that could be easily accessible from different types of clients like Facebook, iOS, Android, and Windows 8.
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV:
101 Apps, Inc.
WEB SITE:
LOCATION: Redmond, Washington, USA
ORG SIZE: 7
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE:
101 Apps builds social apps and games that have been played by millions of users on platforms like Facebook, iPhone, Android, and Windows 8. The mission of 101 Apps is to create social applications with a spark. In 101 Apps’ Guess My Word, you know the mystery word but your friends don't. Get creative with your clues and help them guess your word.
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SOLUTION
Microsoft Azure was a perfect fit for the needs of 101 Apps, which uses Microsoft Azure Cloud Services to host app instances and a mix of Microsoft Azure SQL Database and table storage. 101 Apps also uses a Microsoft Azure worker role for asynchronous data processing, and Service Bus queues to communicate between application components.
BENEFITS
Microsoft Azure Cloud Services provide 101 Apps with both reliability and auto scalability to meet the demands of its game.
Microsoft Azure table storage allows 101 Apps to store and manage data for millions of users without having to worry about running out of disk space.