Gustavo Ambrozio, from Pocket Gems, tells us about how they implemented and how they run War Dragons with the power of Google Cloud Platform.

Learn how an incredibly popular mobile game can scale and provide social features, analytics, while keeping high throughput that enables low latency.

About Gustavo

Gustavo is a software engineer from Brazil with over 20 years experience, almost 8 years of iOS experience (basically since the first iOS SDK was released) and founder of CodeCrop Software. Gustavo has worked on everything from server software, corporate systems and now is having fun living in sunny California developing mobile games for Pocket Gems.

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Where can you find us next?

We are both be speaking at Google I/O next week!
Mark will then be at Change the Game SF
Francesc will speak at goto; Chicago next week and then will be riding the AIDS/Lifecycle and if you want you can donate.

War Dragons with Gustavo Ambrozio