“Our multi-cloud approach made it impossible to build a unified data platform. Bringing everything over to Google Cloud with Sakura Sky solved that.”
Sakura Sky is proud to have our work with Orbx featured as an official Google Cloud Platform case study.
Orbx produces high-fidelity simulated environments, ranging from detailed flight simulations over Brisbane to the prehistoric landscapes of Jurassic World: Archipelago. To support these massive, immersive worlds, they required an infrastructure capable of handling extreme scale and real-time data.
The Challenge
By early 2024, Orbx’s infrastructure was fractured across a multi-cloud and on-premises environment. This complexity prevented cross-platform queries, created restrictive data silos, and made it impossible to scale reliably for major product launches.
The Solution: 100% Cloud-Native Architecture
Orbx engaged Sakura Sky to re-architect its environment to be entirely cloud-native on Google Cloud. The new architecture focused on automation and high-performance data handling:
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automated deployment pipelines using Cloud Build to ensure rapid, reliable, and repeatable updates.
- Compute Elasticity: Leveraged Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to dynamically scale compute resources in real-time based on player demand.
- Real-Time Data Stack: Implemented a high-throughput pipeline to ingest massive streams of positional data using Cloud Bigtable and Cloud SQL.
The Results
The migration to a unified Google Cloud platform delivered immediate improvements across every key operational metric:
- Velocity: Achieved a 400% increase in release velocity, transitioning from irregular deployment windows to rapid, continuous updates.
- Efficiency: Reduced total cloud expenditure by 30% through consolidated billing and automated resource scaling.
- Reliability: Reached 99.99% uptime, maintaining player trust for critical live-service titles.
- Performance: Improved map update precision by 10x, moving from 10-second intervals down to 1 second.
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