f# in social gaming by yan cui at codemotion dubai

Hi, my name is Yan Cui.

Jan 2010

Nov 2015

Apr 2016

F#in�theReal�World

agenda

Domain ModellingInfrastructureGame LogicAlgorithms

DSLs

1MILLION USERS

ACTIVEDAILY

250MILLION DAY

PERREQUEST

2MONTH

TBP E R

secops25,000

we are polyglot

C#

why F#?

time to market

correctness

efficient

tame complexity

Collectables

Wager Size

Special SymbolAvg Wager Size

Web Server call

• Line Win– X number of matching symbols on adjacent columns– Positions have to be a ‘line’– Wild symbols substitute for other symbols

• Scatter Win– X number of matching symbols anywhere– Triggers bonus game

What symbols should land?Any special symbol wins?

Did the player win anything?

What the player’s new average wager?

Should the player receive collectables?

type Symbol = Standard of string | Wild


e.g. Standard “hat”Standard “shoe”Standard “bonus”…


i.e. Wild

type Win = LineWin of int * Symbol * int | ScatterWin of Symbol * int


e.g. LineWin (5, Standard “shoe”, 4)


e.g. ScatterWin (Standard “bonus”, 3)

type LineNum = inttype Count = int

type Win = LineWin of LineNum * Symbol * Count | ScatterWin of Symbol * Count

closed hierarchy

no Nulls

make invalid states unrepresentable

[<Measure>]type Pence

e.g. 42<Pence>153<Pence>…

10<Meter> / 2<Second> = 5<Meter/Second>10<Meter> * 2<Second> = 20<Meter Second> 10<Meter> + 10<Meter> = 20<Meter>10<Meter> * 10 = 100<Meter>10<Meter> * 10<Meter> = 100<Meter2>10<Meter> + 2<Second> // error10<Meter> + 2 // error

type Wager = int64<Pence>type Multiplier = int

type Payout = Coins of Wager | MultipliedCoins of Multiplier * Wager | Multi of Payout list | BonusGame

type State = {

AvgWager : WagerSpecialSymbol : SymbolCollectables : Map<Collectable, Count>

}

immutable by default

lightweight syntax for types & hierarchies

great for domain modelling

make invalid states unrepresentable

better correctness

order of magnitude increase in productivity

player states are big

Stateless Server DatabaseClient

1:1 read-write ratio

ServerClient

Session 1

Session 2

ServerClient Database

Elastic Load Balancer

S3

Auto scaling Group

Server A Server B

...

EC2

CloudFront

Stateful Server

Stateful Server

Game Logic

Stateless Middle-tier

Infrastructure

logging circuit breaker

perf tracking retry …

Stateful Server

Game Logic

Stateful Middle-tier

Infrastructure

logging circuit breaker

perf tracking retry …

The Actor Model

An actor is the fundamental unit of computation which embodies the 3 things

• Processing• Storage• Communication

that are essential to computation.

-Carl Hewitt** http://bit.ly/HoNHbG

http://bit.ly/HoNHbG

The Actor Model

• Everything is an actor• An actor has a mailbox• When an actor receives a message it can:– Create new actors– Send messages to actors– Designate how to handle the next message

Stateful Server

• Gatekeeper– Manages the local list of active workers– Spawns new workers

• Worker– Manages the states for a player– Optimistic locking– Persist state after period of inactivity

Stateful Server

Game Server

Player A

Player B

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S3

Asynchronous

type Agent<‘T> = MailboxProcessor<‘T>


type Message = | Get of AsyncReplyChannel<…> | Put of State * Version * AsyncReplyChannel<…>

type Result<‘T> = | Success of ’T | Failure of Exception

type Result<‘T> = | Success of ’T | Failure of Exception

type GetResult = Result<State * Version>type PutResult = Result<unit>


type Message = | Get of AsyncReplyChannel<GetResult> | Put of State * Version * AsyncReplyChannel<PutResult>

type Worker (playerId) = let agent = Agent<Message>.Start(fun inbox -> let state = getCurrentState playerId

let rec workingState (state, version) = async { … } and closedState () = async { … }

workingState (state, 1))

let rec workingState (state, version) = async { let! msg = inbox.TryReceive(60000) match msg with | None -> do! persist state return! closedState() … }

non-blocking I/O

let rec workingState (state, version) = async { let! msg = inbox.TryReceive(60000) match msg with | None -> do! persist state return! closedState() … }

let rec workingState (state, version) = async { let! msg = inbox.TryReceive(60000) match msg with … | Some(Get(reply)) -> reply.Reply <| Success(state, version) return! workingState(state, version) … }


type Message =

| Get of AsyncReplyChannel<GetResult>

| Put of State * Version * AsyncReplyChannel<PutResult>


type GetResult = Result<State * Version>

type PutResult = Result<unit>

let rec workingState (state, version) = async { let! msg = inbox.TryReceive(60000) match msg with … | Some(Put(newState, v, reply)) when version = v -> reply.Reply <| Success() return! workingState(newState, version+1) … }


type Message =

| Get of AsyncReplyChannel<GetResult>

| Put of State * Version * AsyncReplyChannel<PutResult>

let rec workingState (state, version) = async { let! msg = inbox.TryReceive(60000) match msg with … | Some(Put(_, v, reply)) -> reply.Reply <| Failure(VersionMismatch(version, v)) return! workingState(state, version) }

let rec workingState (state, version) = async { let! msg = inbox.TryReceive(60000) match msg with … | Some(Put(_, v, reply)) -> reply.Reply <| Failure(VersionMismatch(version, v)) return! workingState(state, version) } type Result<‘T> =

| Success of ’T

| Failure of Exception

let rec workingState (state, version) = async { let! msg = inbox.TryReceive(60000) match msg with | None -> … | Some(Get(reply)) -> … | Some(Put(newState, v, reply)) when version = v -> … | Some(Put(_, v, reply)) -> … }

and closedState () = async { let! msg = inbox.Receive() match msg with | Get(reply) -> reply.Reply <| Failure(WorkerStopped) return! closedState() | Put(_, _, reply) -> reply.Reply <| Failure(WorkerStopped) return! closedState() }

5x efficient improvement

60% latency drop

no databases

90% cost saving

Agents• no locks• async message passing

Agents• no locks• async message passing• self-contained• easy to reason with

akka.Net

Orleans

Pattern Matching• clear & concise

Async Workflow• non-blocking I/O• no callbacks

Caught a Gnome

EXP Item Gold

Quest Progress

Caught a Gnome

Level Up

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Level Up

Quest Progress

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New Quest

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100+ actions

triggered by different abstraction layers

non-functional requirements

message-broker pattern

Caught Gnome Trapping

Queue

Levelling

Quests

Achievements

Analytics

Partner Reporting


Queue

Levelling

Quests

Achievements

Analytics

Partner Reporting

Ignore

Process

Process

Process

Process

Ignore


Queue

Levelling

Quests

Achievements

Analytics

Partner Reporting

EXPItemGold


Queue

Levelling

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Achievements

Analytics

Partner Reporting

EXPItemGold

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Ignore

Ignore

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Ignore


Queue

Levelling

Quests

Achievements

Analytics

Partner Reporting

EXPItemGold

Level Up

need lots of facts

type Reward = | GotExp of Exp | GotGold of Gold | GotItem of Item * Count

type StateChange = | LevelUp of OldLevel * NewLevel …

type Fact = | StateChange of StateChange | Reward of Reward | Trapping of Trapping | Fishing of Fishing …

let process fact = match fact with | StateChange(stateChange) -> … | Reward(reward) -> … | Trapping(trapping) -> … …

C# interop

…var fact = Fact.NewStateChange(

StateChange.NewLevelUp(oldLvl, newLvl));…

type IFact = interface end

type Reward = | GotExp of Exp | GotGold of Gold | GotItem of Item * Count interface IFact

simple

flexible

location baitattraction rate

catch rate

auto-tuning trapping stats

Monsterstrength speed

intelligence

Trapstrength speed

technology

Monsterstrength speed

intelligence

Trapstrength speed

technology

Catch Rate %

trial-and-error

“if you require constant diligence you’re setting

everyone up for failure and hurt”

- Bryan Hunter

genetic algorithms

F#-powered DSLs.Awesome!

wanna find correlations?

wanna find correlations?

you can DIY it!

;-)

Amazon.CloudWatch.Selector

github.com/fsprojects/Amazon.CloudWatch.Selector

https://github.com/fsprojects/Amazon.CloudWatch.Selector

Find metrics whose 5 min average exceeded

1 second during last 12 hours

cloudWatch.Select( unitIs “milliseconds” + average (>) 1000.0 @ last 12 hours |> intervalOf 5 minutes)

cloudWatch.Select(“ unitIs ‘milliseconds’ and average > 1000.0 duringLast 12 hours at intervalOf 5 minutes”)

Did any cache nodes’ CPU spike yesterday?

cloudWatch.Select( namespaceLike “elasticache” + nameLike “cpu” + max (>) 80.0 @ last 24 hours |> intervalOf 15 minutes)

cloudWatch.Select( namespaceLike “elasticache” + nameLike “cpu” + max (>) 80.0 @ last 24 hours |> intervalOf 15 minutes)

regex support

Amazing

F# =

managedkey-value store

redundancy9-9s guarantee

great performance

name your throughput

select GameTitle, UserId, TopScore from GameScores where GameTitle = “Starship X” and TopScore >= 1000 order desc limit 3 with (NoConsistentRead, Index(GameTitleIndex, true))

DynamoDB.SQL

github.com/fsprojects/DynamoDb.SQL

https://github.com/fsprojects/DynamoDb.SQL

GOAL

Disguise complexity

GOAL

SELECT UserId, TopScore FROM GameScore WHERE GameTitle CONTAINS “Zelda” ORDER DESCLIMIT 3 WITH (NoConsistentRead)

Query

AST

Execution

F# & FParsec*

*www.quanttec.com/fparsec

External DSL via

http://www.quanttec.com/fparsec/

SELECT * FROM GameScore

Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)

FParsec

select GameTitle, UserId, TopScore from GameScores where GameTitle = “Starship X” and TopScore >= 1000 order desc limit 3 with (NoConsistentRead, Index(GameTitleIndex, true))

< 50 LOC

S3 Provider

github.com/fsprojects/S3Provider

F# type provider for Amazon S3

https://github.com/fsprojects/S3Provider

intellisense over S3

compile time validation

no code generation