As we end the year, we at Cymorg Inc. are celebrating a significant milestone we achieved in 2023: the launch of Cymorg 6.0! Thanks to the Almighty & dedicated effort of the entire team, we were able to transition from supporting a modest 1,000 concurrent users to an impressive 20,000 users. Let me explain why this is a monumental achievement, architecturally speaking.
Our ‘users’ are not just casual users browsing a website. Rather, each user actively engages in a gamified simulation, involving complex computations such as probability-based event generation, dynamic scorecard updates, instantaneous user feedback, and real-time adjustments to the game based on user decisions. In order to achieve this, we had to seamlessly orchestrate and deploy approximately 70 microservices on the AWS serverless platform.
Why did we decide to transform? Our user subscriptions saw exponential growth from 2022 onwards, and this growth looks poised to accelerate even further into 2024 and beyond. Given our lean product management strategy, we had to make some bold choices. We decided to fully embrace a pure microservices architecture and transition into a serverless platform, freeing our small product team from the complexities of infrastructure management.
This paradigm shift necessitated a reimagination, refactoring, and complete rewriting of certain services to seamlessly align with the serverless architecture. Shifting from traditional server-based services to serverless solutions, we leveraged the capabilities of Lambda functions, DynamoDB, Aurora Serverless, API Gateway, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch and other serverless offerings on AWS.
While this milestone primarily focused on the migration to a serverless microservices architecture, it also introduced new features, with one shining example being the integration of GenAI in our Chatbot service, leveraging the cutting-edge GPT-4. Our team swiftly embraced prompt engineering, emerging as early adopters of GenAI, implementing essential guardrails to stay abreast of the latest technologies.
With a keen eye on the future, we eagerly anticipate the opportunities that the new year holds for Cymorg, poised to unveil additional features and advancements in the dynamic realms of technology and gamified simulations. Here's to pushing boundaries and scaling new heights in 2024! #CymorgJourney #Innovation #Microservices #ServerlessArchitecture #gpt4
Our latest blog post has more info on all of our executive hires this year: https://www.coreweave.com/blog/building-our-team---and-how-we-know-our-strategy-is-working