Multi-Region Active-Active Architecture for a Gaming Backend
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Multi-Region Active-Active Architecture for a Gaming Backend. Expert-level challenge in design. Designing real products under real constraints, earn a blockc...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Design a 3-region active-active gaming backend that cuts cross-Pacific p95 below 80ms while solving leaderboard, matchmaking, and session-affinity correctly.
This is not a design exercise. It is the work a product designer does between a brief and a shipped interface. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates redesign Spotify's homepage and none who have worked under real product constraints.
When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Design an active-active multi-region architecture on a major cloud
- Choose consistency models per data type (player profile, leaderboard, sessions)
- Solve cross-region matchmaking as a real distributed-systems problem
- Plan a multi-quarter migration without breaking the live game
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Cloud Computing
Master · Cloud And Devops
Strong alignment
This challenge maps to Cloud Computing at the Master level. It sharpens the same practical skills your coursework expects — but in a real industry context with actual constraints and deliverables.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Multi Region Architecture
Apply multi region architecture to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Aws
Deploy and manage infrastructure and services on Amazon Web Services.
- Terraform
Apply terraform to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Distributed Systems
Apply distributed systems to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Performance Optimization
Apply performance optimization to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Documentation
Apply documentation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles: