🎮 Gaming · Data Flow
Game Leaderboard Data Pipeline
How match results turn into leaderboards and rankings: result events, anti-cheat checks, rating updates and cached leaderboards.
Drawing diagram…
What this diagram shows
- Results are validated by anti-cheat before counting
- Skill ratings (Elo/MMR) update after each match
- Global, regional and friends leaderboards are cached
Prompt used
Data flow for leaderboards: game servers send match result events to Kafka, an anti-cheat service checks for impossible stats and flags suspicious results, valid results update player skill ratings (MMR), scores go into Redis sorted sets for global, regional and friends leaderboards, season-end snapshots are stored in the database for rewards, and the game client reads leaderboards through an API.
Mermaid code
flowchart LR GS[Game Servers] -->|Match results| K[Kafka] K --> AC[Anti-Cheat Checks] AC -->|Suspicious| REV[Review Queue] AC -->|Valid| MMR[Rating Service - MMR] MMR --> R[(Redis sorted sets)] R -->|Global, regional, friends| API[Leaderboard API] API --> CL[Game Clients] R -->|Season end snapshot| DB[(Season Results DB)] DB --> RW[Rewards Service]
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