Coalesce 2024: How Riot Games is building player-first gaming experiences with Databricks and dbt
In this session, you'll learn how Riot's data platform team paired with analytics engineering, machine learning, and insights teams to integrate Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and dbt Cloud to significantly mature its data capabilities. The outcome: a scalable, collaborative analytics environment that serves millions of players worldwide.
Riot Games, creator of hit titles like League of Legends and Valorant, is building an ultimate gaming experience by using data and AI to deliver the most optimal player journeys.
In this session, you'll learn how Riot's data platform team paired with analytics engineering, machine learning, and insights teams to integrate Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and dbt Cloud to significantly mature its data capabilities. The outcome: a scalable, collaborative analytics environment that serves millions of players worldwide. You’ll hear how Riot Games:
- Centralized petabytes of game telemetry on Databricks for fast processing and analytics
- Modernized their data platform by integrating dbt Cloud, unlocking governance for modular, version-controlled data transformations and testing for a diverse set of user personas
- Uses Generative AI to automate the enforcement of good documentation and quality code and plans to use Databricks AI to further speed up its ability to unlock the value of data
- Deployed machine learning models for personalized recommendations and player behavior analysis
You'll come away with practical insights on architecting a modern data stack that can handle massive scale while empowering teams across the organization. Whether you're in gaming or any data-intensive industry, you'll learn valuable lessons from Riot's journey to build a world-class data platform.