Open Match & Agones- Understanding Google’s Gaming Infrastructure

Google has been making strides in the gaming industry with its cloud-based gaming infrastructure. Two of the most important components of this infrastructure are Open Match and Agones.

In this post, we’ll take a look at these two technologies and how they work together to provide a seamless gaming experience.

Open Match — How It Works

Open Match is an open-source matchmaking framework designed to handle the complexities of matching players in multiplayer games.

The key components of Open Match are:

• Frontend: This component receives matchmaking requests from players and forwards them to the backend.
• Backend: This component is responsible for finding suitable matches for players based on their matchmaking requests.
• Query Service: This component is responsible for storing and retrieving matchmaking data.
• Evaluator: This component is responsible for evaluating the quality of matches found by the backend.
• Synchronizer: This component is responsible for synchronizing the state of the matchmaking system across all components.
• Redis: This component is responsible for storing matchmaking data and…