Assembla Customer Stories:
Unity Case Study
Background
Unity by the Numbers:
800 Engineers
3 Billion Devices Reached
24 Billion Installations
Unity is the creator of the world’s most widely-used real-time 3D development platform, giving developers around the world the tools to create rich, interactive 2D, 3D, VR and AR experiences.
The company’s 800 person engineering team keeps Unity at the bleeding-edge of technology by working alongside partners such as Google, Facebook, Oculus and Microsoft to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Games and experiences made with Unity have reached ~3 billion devices worldwide and were installed more than 24 billion times in the last 12 months.
Unity was a “DIY file transfer nightmare”
The Made with Unity team runs independently of the rest of the organization and, thus, moves quickly and needs partners who accommodate their fast internal timelines. A large part of their work and success relies on the ability to transfer large files rapidly.
This challenge is compounded by the distributed nature of their team. There is no time for latency, and before Assembla, Made with Unity was facing “a DIY file transfer nightmare.” Managing repos internally was creating a lag in their ability to execute and they came to Assembla looking for a fully managed solution that needed to be implemented quickly.
Additionally, the “Made with Unity” team uses multiple repository types, Git and Perforce, for their projects. With their previous solution, the team had to manage multiple providers in order to use both of their preferred repository types.
In addition, Assembla’s use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a preferred partner, laid solid infrastructure to ensure the speed the Unity team needed. Assembla’s ability to deploy this team’s solution quickly was a huge driver for the team’s choice.
Assembla is the only provider on the market trusted by Perforce to deliver seamless, on-demand Helix Core to customers. This partnership, in addition to Assembla’s ability to manage multiple repository types, is why and how “Made with Unity” found success.
Why AWS?
AWS has the broadest and deepest portfolio of services that allows Assembla to stay focused on driving innovation in products rather than the basic infrastructure needed to get or keep a service running. AWS’ unmatched scalability has been instrumental in keeping pace with customer demand.
MIKE WUETHERICK
“Made with Unity” founder
In their words, “[Perforce] scales for large teams, handles 1000s of daily transactions, and delivers files quickly to remote users.” According to Mike Wuetherick, a Producer for Unity and founder of the Made with Unity team, “Being able to get a global Perforce solution on-demand and fully managed with Assembla helped the Unity team do more and go faster by freeing up internal resources. Made with Unity’s previous solution was wasting time and money for the business. We see Assembla as a trusted partner and an extension of the team.”
In addition to Perforce, Made with Unity has Git projects spread across multiple cloud providers. There are no other cloud solutions on the market that allow teams to house Git and Perforce solutions together, in the cloud, in a fully managed way. Assembla’s ability to provide a central location to house Unity’s different client projects streamlines internal business operations.
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