Headline: Bet365 recruits new R&D team to build next generation platform

Bet365 is looking beyond the immediate future of online gaming and is planning a complete overhaul of its gaming platform. So extensive is the new system it should see the company through to at least 2025 as it hosts a new generation of servers with increasing numbers of core processors.

By becoming the latest major online company to build its new platform from the ground up and completely from scratch, bet365 is taking the opportunity to incorporate functions that will improve efficiency and speed. By employing a completely new research and development team the company hopes that they will be able to work outside of the normal business constraints such as deadlines and product launches.

Instead, the team will be tasked with developing the next-generation platform to ensure the business infrastructure can handle the demands of the next decade of online gambling.

CTO Martin Davies advised that the team will "rearchitect our key systems to try to take advantage of the new, more powerful machines with these huge amounts of CPUs" as well as "enable our systems to become more distributed so that we can spread load across many more systems and take advantage of the cloud systems we've already got in".

He went on to say, "speed and latency are the biggest problems we have to deal with."
"On a typical day we'll be making many tens of millions of changes onto the website and we've got to get those changes out to those customers as fast as possible because if they want to come in and buy a bet off us and they aren't seeing the current prices on their systems, there's a problem."