Application Refactoring · IT Operations Automation · Real-time Analytics
Orbx needed to re-architect its simulation and tracking platforms for elasticity, real-time data handling, and faster release cycles while lowering cloud spend enough to reinvest in new AI capabilities.
Reported impact
Orbx shipped updates faster, reduced cloud cost, and created a more elastic real-time media platform that can support both current experiences and future AI-assisted development workflows.
Orbx rebuilt its environment on Google Cloud with help from partner Sakura Sky so its immersive-content and live-tracking products could operate as cloud-native services. Google Kubernetes Engine provides the elasticity behind titles such as Volanta, automatically scaling when thousands of users log in at once and shrinking during quiet periods to control cost. Bigtable ingests heavy streams of real-time positional data, Cloud SQL stores player inventories, and BigQuery analyzes flight-cost and operational data. Around that core, Cloud Vision API, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Cloud Build, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Monitoring help Orbx process assets, automate infrastructure pipelines, and observe platform behavior. Gemini Code Assist and broader Gemini experiments now sit on top of the same foundation, giving Orbx a platform that improved release velocity, reduced spend, and created room to explore coding agents and workflow summarization.
Gameplay and platform events are ingested into Bigtable and moved through Pub/Sub-backed workflows while GKE scales the application tier. Transactional inventory data lives in Cloud SQL, analytics flow into BigQuery, and Cloud Build plus observability services support release and operations workflows.
Boosts release velocity 400% with Google Kubernetes Engine
Cuts costs 30% to reinvest in AI with Google Kubernetes Engine autoscaling
Meanwhile, the team needs to process heavy write loads. Orbx implemented Bigtable to ingest massive streams of real-time positional data.
Orbx engaged Partner Sakura Sky to re-architect its environment to be cloud-native
for the Volanta flight tracking platform, Orbx uses Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to handle massive elasticity.
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