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Episode 018 · Platform & Scale

Gaming Engineering: Speed, Quality, and Scale Explained

Pranabjyoti BordoloiAVP Engineering, Junglee Games

Running real-money gaming during IPL season is what Pranabjyoti calls 'daily Black Friday.' He walks through how Junglee handles massive predictable load spikes, what building for fairness and trust means in a regulated real-money context, and how AI is reshaping game personalisation and fraud detection.

What we covered

  • real-money gaming
  • traffic scale
  • AI in gaming

What I took away

  • Predictable traffic spikes are easier to engineer for than random ones — if you plan
  • Trust and fairness in real-money gaming require systems that go beyond typical product thinking
  • Lean gaming teams need to ship fast without compromising on compliance
  • AI is most useful in gaming for personalisation and anomaly detection, not core game logic

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