BACKEND & CLOUD

Backend & Cloud

Realtime multiplayer, matchmaking, player services, dedicated game servers, Kubernetes infrastructure and the operational systems required to keep connected games running.

From the first authority decision to Agones-based server fleets, Open Match matchmaking, deployment pipelines, observability and live scaling, this discipline owns what must keep working after the player presses Connect.

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DISCIPLINE SCOPE

We build and operate the online foundation behind connected products.

Our backend discipline covers realtime multiplayer, matchmaking and lobbies, player services, dedicated servers, managed hosting and cloud infrastructure.

We design around game actions, session lifecycle and valuable player state—not generic web traffic. Client contracts, deployment, observability and recovery are included in the same technical plan.

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Realtime and sessions

Authority, replication, lobbies, matchmaking, reconnects and match result flow.

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Player and product state

Identity, progression, inventory, economy, configuration and live-operation tools.

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Servers and capacity

Headless builds, allocation, regions, scaling, safe rollout and active-match protection.

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Cloud operations

CI/CD, data, observability, recovery, security, cost control and managed response.

DETAILED SERVICES

Choose the workstream that matches the current constraint.

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Multiplayer Game Development Services

Networking architecture and implementation around the actual game loop.

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Matchmaking Development

Skill, latency, party, wait-time and server-capacity rules that operators can observe and tune.

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Game Backend Development Services

Custom game backends for player accounts, progression, inventory and live operations, integrated with your game and operated the way your team needs.

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Dedicated Game Server Hosting & Operations

Deployment, allocation, regions, health and version-safe releases for studios running dedicated servers for their own multiplayer games.

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Managed Hosting

MANAGED SERVER HOSTING

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Cloud & DevOps

Production environments, CI/CD, observability, data, recovery, security and cost control.

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TECHNICAL PRIORITIES

From decision to production.

  1. 01

    Model

    Map authority, state, traffic, consistency, failure and ownership before choosing infrastructure.

  2. 02

    Contract

    Define versioned client, service and operational interfaces so teams can work independently.

  3. 03

    Validate

    Exercise latency, retries, duplicate work, disconnects, dependency failure and burst demand.

  4. 04

    Operate

    Deploy with useful metrics, controlled rollout, recovery procedures and visible run cost.

Player-facing development and backend engineering are scoped, estimated and led independently.

When both are required, we connect them through explicit interfaces, shared milestones and one release plan.

START WITH THIS DISCIPLINE

Make the online foundation observable, reliable and ready for real traffic.

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