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Gaming Tech Brief By HackerNoon

Gaming Tech Brief By HackerNoon

How Supercell Powers its Massive Social Network with ScyllaDB

Gaming Tech Brief By HackerNoon · Dec 31, 2025 · 10:06

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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-supercell-powers-its-massive-social-network-with-scylladb.
Supercell powers real-time cross-game chat, presence, and notifications for millions using ScyllaDB Cloud, enabling low-latency, scalable events.
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Supercell scaled real-time, cross-game social features for hundreds of millions of players using ScyllaDB Cloud. With just two engineers, they built Supercell ID for account management, chat, presence, and notifications, leveraging hierarchical key-value storage, Change Data Capture, and low-latency writes to handle massive concurrent events efficiently and reliably.

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