Scalable Game Backend Systems Questions

Evaluate design and operational knowledge for backend services that support large scale games. Topics include architectures for matchmaking and session management, authoritative versus peer approaches, stateless and stateful service design, databases and caching strategies, sharding and partitioning, throughput and latency trade offs, event driven and streaming analytics pipelines, persistent progression and economy backends, security and abuse mitigation, observability and SLO considerations, and deployment and autoscaling practices for production services.