Networking @Scale 2018 – Networking Challenges in Gaming

Speaker: Malachi Middlebrook, Network Architect at Blizzard

Speaker: Philip Orwig, Network Architect at Blizzard

Malachi Middlebrook, Network Architect at Blizzard, and Philip Orwig, Principal Software Engineer at Blizzard, discuss how games like Overwatch, World of Warcraft, and Diablo work around the realities and restrictions of the network in order to provide us the rapid, multiplayer, online game experience.