Conf42 Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) 2025 - Online

- premiere 5PM GMT

Zero to Fifty: Engineering Sub-50ms IAM Architecture for High-Stakes Gaming Platforms

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Discover how we slashed authentication times to under 50ms globally while cutting infrastructure costs. Our edge-deployed identity proxies and stateless JWT system handle thousands of gaming transactions per second with zero database lookups. Milliseconds matter—learn how we made them count.

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Hi everyone. This is ATI ish. Thank you for joining my session. Today. We'll be discussing on zero to 50 engineering sub 50 millisecond. I am architecture for high stake gaming platform. In the competitive world of online gaming and betting every millisecond of authentication latency directly impacts user experience, revenue, and security. Let's discuss on an innovative identity and access management architecture that consistently achieves sub 50 millisecond authentication speed across global markets at scale. This presentation reveals the engineering decisions. Implementation details and measurable results for a high performance IAM system providing actionable insights for technology leaders seeking millisecond level responsiveness in today's gaming landscape. Let's start with discussing on the business impact of authentication Speed. Our data shows the direct correlation between authentication speed and business success. When authentication time exceed a hundred millisecond transaction completion rate drop dramatically. Players expect instantaneous responses, especially during time sensitive gaming or betting opportunities. By optimizing authentication, we have seen significant improvements across key performance metrics. Our data indicates. 18% reduction in transaction abandonment with 27% increase in user retention leading to 32% rise in revenue growth. Let's discuss on the global authentication architecture. The proposed architecture leverages strategically position edge, deployed identity proxies that dramatically reduce latency while simultaneously lowering infrastructure costs by bringing authentication closer to users. We have cut network transmission time by an average of 65 millisecond across global markets. We used stateless JWT authentication system. Our system leveraged Shortlived JWTs with ES 2 56 cryptographic signing to process thousands of transaction per second. With zero database lookups, maintaining robust security without sacrificing speed. This stateless approach eliminates database bottlenecks while allowing instant revocation through a distributed block list when necessary. We also implemented real time fraud detection. Our system analyzes behavioral pattern through streaming technologies to identify suspicious activities before transactions. Complete by continuously monitoring, interaction patterns, device fingerprints, and transaction velocity. We can detect anomalies without adding authentication latency for legitimate users. We also utilized intelligent KYC and compliance metrics by intelligently offloading KYC and trust scoring processes. We have eliminated authentication bottlenecks while improving regulatory compliance across diverse markets. Our system adapts verification requirements based on jurisdiction, player behavior, and transaction patterns, applying appropriate compliance measures without impacting authentication speed. Our system integrated web authentication, and FID O2 integration. Our integration of these standards reduced login friction resulting in measurable increase in microtransaction conversion rates among high value player segments. By leveraging device-based biometric authentication, we have eliminated password related friction while substantially improving security posture. Players can seamlessly authenticate across devices using fingerprints, facial recognition, or security keys, reducing the cognitive load of remembering credentials while making account takeovers virtually impossible. Some of the performance benchmarks from our study. We have conducted comprehensive benchmarks comparing traditional IM approach against our optimized architecture across various gaming scenarios. The results consistently show our system outperforming industry standards by three to seven times. With our edge based JWT authentication, delivering 32 millisecond average response time globally, some of the implementation challenges and the solutions we followed our journey to sub 50 millisecond authentication wasn't without obstacles. By addressing the core challenges with innovative solutions, we have created a system that balances speed, security, and compliance without compromise. Some of the challenges were JWTs can't be immediately revoked. The solution we found was a short five minute lifetime with silent background refresh, combined with distributed revocation list for compromised tokens. Another challenge was maintaining consistent auth policy across regions. To overcome that, we had to use centralized policy management with atomic version updates propagated to edge news through resilient messaging system. Our next challenge was. The varying KYC requirement across jurisdictions. To overcome that, we had to deploy region specific compliance module with local data residency where required, separated from core authentication, workflow, some of the business outcomes and the impact. The impact of this authentication improvement extends far beyond technical metrics. Players experience a seamless, frictionless environment that encourages engagement and builds trust while the business benefits from higher conversion rate and op operational efficiency, some of the metrics is present. We did see 92% reduction in authentication related support tickets, 4.8 out of five average rating, which was up from 3.6 for operational efficiency. 43% of infrastructural cost was reduced, and 72% of peak time scaling events were reduced. For security improvements, we saw 67% reduction in account takeover attempts, and 98% decrease in successful credential staffing attacks. Thus, the revenue growth saw 16% increase in average transaction value and 24% higher conversion on time sensitive betting opportunities. The implementation roadmap and recommendation begin your journey to millisecond level authentication with this faced approach. We recommend starting with a pilot in your highest value region to demonstrate immediate business impact before expanding globally. Focus first on core authentication speed before implementing advanced feature like biometrics and behavioral analysis. I look forward to discuss further on our approach and to answer any questions that you have. Hope this gave some idea on. How to seek millisecond level response time and how to build an architecture. Thank you for joining my session. Hope you enjoy the rest of the conference.
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Aditi Mallesh

@ Syracuse University

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