Last Sunday, Fortnite reached some rarified air, as a recent blog post on the Epic Games site has revealed that the Battle Royale game hit a new peak of 3.4 million concurrent players, a number that?s ridiculous to even think about it, but even crazier when actually broken down, which is what the folks at Epic Games did.

A technical postmortem of last weekend?s service outage at 3.4M CCU
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According to the in-depth breakdown, the extreme amount of players caused a ton of incidents, most of which were fixed pretty quickly, but some of which needed some more work. Of course, it?s a great trade off, as 3.4 million concurrent players is certainly something to celebrate. If you want to read the full breakdown on the technical mishaps associated with such a milestone, check out the blog post for all of that. In the meantime, Epic has outlined a ton of new steps and updates focused on improving game stability, some of which you can read below:
Identify and resolve the root cause of our DB performance issues. We?ve flown Mongo experts on-site to analyze our DB and usage, as well as provide real-time support during heavy load on weekends.
Optimize, reduce, and eliminate all unnecessary calls to the backend from the client or servers.Some examples are periodically verifying user entitlements when this is already happening implicitly with each game service call. Registering and un...