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• thiefcrazy98

  Colleagues, hello! I have a question, perhaps a little “from the inside”, but still. I work as a designer in a studio that services one of the gambling projects, and I began to think more and more about how much the work of programmers really affects the ultimate success of an online casino. I’m talking about the backend and game development department, not marketing. Inside, we say: “developers are the heart of the entire system”, but I’d like to hear the opinions of those who have encountered this in real life. Because from the outside, it seems that everything revolves around a license, aggressive advertising and beautiful slots. But technically, under the hood, there is hell. Share, if anyone was closer to these processes - what is it really like?

  May 3rd, 3:28 am
• EvanDuke

  I have been working in DevOps and backend development in the gambling segment for over five years, and I can say with confidence that no online casino will survive without decent developers. No marketer, designer, or even licensor will be able to save a platform if its betting logic “floats,” billing slows down, or the lobby crashes during peak user numbers. As stated in https://starofmysore.com/the-role-of-software-developers-in-online-casinos/, an online casino is essentially a distributed system with high loads in 24/7 mode, where any failures cost money literally every second. For example, on our project, even a small lag in spin processing (about 300-500 ms) caused a wave of complaints, a decrease in player retention, and, as a result, losses in LTV. Now multiply this by tens of thousands of users per day — you get a disaster if the architecture is not thought out. It is the developers who create the foundation — from random number generators (which must be certified and resistant to cheating) to adaptive UI on React or Vue, so that a client in Malaysia and a client in Brazil receive the same fast and stable game. Plus a bunch of microservices: authorization, transactions, game history, bonus mechanics. All this must work in real time, without delays and errors. It is the developers who make possible the experience that the player perceives as “magic”. Moreover, security is also on the shoulders of the developers. It is not only HTTPS and authorization, but full-fledged anti-fraud algorithms, protection from bots, tracking of suspicious activity. It is not only suits in the office and coffee from a capsule — it is a constant stress test, logging, proxies, backups, updates. And all this, mind you, often happens on production, because you can’t just take and “turn off the casino for the weekend”.

  May 3rd, 6:24 am
• Tobias

  Very informative, especially for those who looked at the industry from the side of “pictures and banners”. I never thought that such a volume of engineering work could be behind a stable slot. I will have to dig deeper into the architecture of these solutions – it became interesting.

  May 3rd, 9:01 am