bet365 has high tech plans for the future

In a recent interview with technology publisher silicon.com, bet365’s Chief Technology Officer Martin Davies outlined the company’s technology plans to see it through to 2020, and it’s all about speed and capacity.

A major platform rebuild is planned that will take advantage of the enormously powerful servers now available (and becoming available in the future), and marry them with software that will allow this power to be harnessed.

Already servers with 80 cores are being added; next year 160 core processors will be deployed. Davies envisages that servers containing over 1000 cores will be available within 10 years, allowing for many millions of tasks to be handled concurrently…which is great if you’ve got the programming running on the machines that allows this to happen.  Not so good if you’re still relying on an old platform that likes to perform task sequentially…hence the top-to-toe reboot.

In layman’s terms you just won’t get the best out of a Bugatti Veyron if you’ve got Miss Daisy behind the wheel.  You really should have the Stig.

Why the need for so much speed?

Speed and latency are the biggest problems we have to deal with,” says Davies and this stems from heavy demands being placed by customers.  On any given day there are, “many tens of millions of changes on the website and… across all of our systems we’ll have well over a million concurrent users“.

Despite the enormous amounts of information being processed by their systems, we as players are concerned only that our requests are being processed, and that this is happening quickly and accurately via a user interface that is simple and seamless.  Not too much to ask. But this requires back-end complexity and processing grunt.

So when can we expect to see changes?

No time frame has been put on the reboot but an R&D team has been assigned to the project and ring-fenced from the company’s day to day IT tasks/deadlines.  bet365 is known for developing the lion’s share of it’s technology needs in-house rather than outsourcing or licensing from 3rd parties and this will be the case here.  The R&D team will be plucked from the company’s 320-strong IT staff.

As to when we’ll see the fruits of all this tech wizardry? I imagine the changes will be more back-end related and probably not so noticeable until enhancements that are possible with the new platform as a foundation are added.

What is promising, is that bet365 have big plans to improve their already solid offering, well into the next decade.

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