Roblox is used by over 77 million people globally every day, of whom 21.4 million are in Europe (separate UK figures are unavailable). Users spent an eye-watering 16.7 billion hours on Roblox over ...

The company started with Prometheus and InfluxDB, but as volume continued to build, Roblox eventually adopted a time-series database called VictoriaMetrics. Roblox may seem like an overnight success ...

In Roblox’s case, that’s meant layering in new technology while updating systems that were created well before you could buy a VR headset at Target for something-ninety-nine.