Our Experience as a Company: Lessons from a Decade in Platform Engineering
Online platforms are make-or-break—and they’re brutal to manage.
Multiplayer gaming’s a pressure cooker—titles explode from zero to millions overnight, and the infrastructure has to hold. Apex Legends hit 50 million players in under 24 days, peaking at 2 million concurrent users. That’s not luck; it’s platform engineering expertise. Downtime slashes revenue, lag drives players away—our staff at Hyperbyte learned this first-hand at Unity’s Multiplay division. For nearly a decade, we’ve been in the game server hosting trenches, keeping studios operational and players engaged.
Our team’s battle-tested, having launched over 20 game titles at Multiplay. Apex Legends was a standout—hybrid scaling from bare metal to Google Cloud for millions—but it’s not alone. We’ve powered Respawn Entertainment (Apex’s creators), Facepunch Studios with Rust’s survival chaos, and Coffee Stain Studios for Satisfactory’s factory sprawl. Each launch demanded precision: orchestrating thousands of servers worldwide, maintaining a 99.95% SLA through complex upgrades and migrations. We managed a 30,000-machine estate, supporting over 90 live titles—keeping them stable under massive player demand.
That experience forged a team that excels under pressure. Hyperbyte’s our next step. Gaming taught us resilience—millions of players demand zero downtime—but every business faces similar challenges. E-commerce crashes on Black Friday, fintech falters under trades, SaaS strains at scale. Our staff’s Multiplay playbook—speed, reliability, scalability—isn’t just for studios; it’s for anyone running a platform. We’re bringing that proven expertise beyond gaming, ready to tackle chaos wherever it hits.
How Hyperbyte Helps: Hyperbyte delivers that battle-tested know-how to your platform. One command— bash <(curl -Ss https://dl.hyperbyte.cloud/install) —sets us up fast, no setup hassles, across any system. Core Monitoring tracks your platform 24/7 with smart AI alerts; Platform Keeper manages backups and health checks; SRE Co-Pilot resolves incidents and plans growth; Total Platform Team takes charge—designing, scaling, and monitoring your app’s performance from end to end. We kept Apex live through millions of players—now we’re here to keep your business running smoothly, chaos-free.