Pokemon Go hit 50x traffic target, putting Google to the test

Of course, this huge surge in transactions and downloads caused Pokemon GO to be buggy and not work to its full potential.

More than 70 Pokémon Go players and those who see themselves as victims of the game, its players or the gotta-get-em-all pocket monsters have filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission since the game’s July launch.

At the beginning, the worst case scenario estimates for server strain were put at approximately five times the projected launch target. Pokemon Go’s popularity quickly surged player traffic to 50X the initial target, ten times the worst-case estimate.

A blog post by a member of the Google Cloud team paints a heroic picture of how Niantic and Google Cloud developers managed to keep the service up during the launch.

This is where it gets technical.

Now it appears that Niantic has made yet another major adjustment to Pokemon Go, as trainers are suddenly seeing evolved Pokemon at nests around the world.

The Pokémon Company, which licenses the franchise, said in August that Niantic was collating all the requests to withdraw the game from certain areas, or to add new pokestops where gamers can collect virtual goods.

The developer has been very clear on its policy towards what it regards as cheating, and despite the player’s protests, their Pokemon GO account remains locked.

In a nutshell, the swap to the newer version had allowed the team to learn from its United States launch issues, and execute a near-flawless one in Japan.

Pokemon Go was the largest Kubernetes deployment on Google Container Engine ever.

The Hague, a coastal city with a population of nearly 500,000 people, has seen thousands of people visit their beaches and authorities began worrying about the protected area.

There was always the suspicion that its instability was because the servers were falling over under the weight of the traffic, but today, there’s confirmation of that, from the unlikely source of Google.

The most recent update saw the Hiroshima and Berlin Holocaust memorials disappear as Pokemon landmarks.

When Pokemon Go launched, there were widespread connection issues and, according to Luke Stone, director of customer reliability engineering at Google Cloud, this is because Pokemon Go went through an unusually sharp increase in adoption.