Welcome to Owlient’s new “techblog”. This site will present some of the technologies used here at Owlient to build our 3 games.
Our games are running on top of Apache, PHP5, MySQL and Memcache, so much of the articles will discuss these tools. The millions of players who visit our websites force us to use special techniques in order to scale to such a very large number of page views.
Such techniques include: Database optimisations and Replication, Sharding, Caching, PHP acceleration, Load balancing, Virtualization, Monitoring, and more.