The Gamer

Topic: Large scale system design.

Challenge: Contestants will diagram and detail the architecture for a game similar to Pokémon Go. Contestants will provide deep knowledge of mobile application development, service side architecture, site reliability engineering, database architecture, user experience design, image and video encoding, and more.

Visualization: Viewers will see as buildings representing the servers are attacked with millions of users in traffic and security testing hacks.

Contestants: Winning contestants from Competition episodes

Summary: In "The Gamer", the semi-final episode of Whiteboard Challenge, contestants diagram, architect, and plan the technical architecture and project charter for a game similar to Pokémon Go which includes everything from user experience design for mobile and web front end development to server side scalable architecture to support billions of active unique users.