Service Overview
The list below outlines the major services and components of the Cubeia Backoffice Suite.

Architecture
All services are stand alone and have Web Service interfaces (SOAP) and have no dependencies to each other. This means that it is possible to customize the backoffice based on needs. Integration with external services (payment service providers for example) is done via the ESB which supports a wide range of transports.

The backoffice suite favours a hub-n-spoke topology rather than point-to-point integrations. This topology dramatically reduces the number of integrations and is highly flexible as the ESB hides the concrete destination of messages. This way services can be easily exchanged and clustered or load balanced.

User Service
The user service stores user data such as names, address information, authentication credentials and custom attributes. The service supports all basic CRUD operations as well as searching with filters and sorting.

Accounting Service
This service handles monetary transactions using general ledger bookkeeping. The central concept is the account. A transaction consists of a set of account entries (2..n) with a zero sum.

Creating accounts is a cheap operation which makes the service suitable for handling lots of short lived accounts, for example table sessions in a poker game.

The internal design is non-blocking and supports very high throughput.

CEP Services
Complex event processing is used to make real time analyzis of event patterns. Application events, for example game specific player actions, are posted to a CEP server. The server processes the incoming events against a set of customizable queries which in turn may spawn new events or trigger actions.

The CEP services handles very high throughput and will drop events if the load gets to high to ensure that the event producers are unaffected.

Examples of usage: player winning or losing streaks, fraud detection, system malfunctions, rake tracking, etc.

Backoffice administration interface
A web based unified web interface for the accounting and user services. The tool provides searching, filtering and editing for users and transactions as well as some basic reports. All views are highly cross referenced and supports comprehensive drill downs on most entities.