Case Study: Playday Games cuts AWS Lambda debugging time with Rookout

Rookout integrates with Sentry to expedite the Playday Games DevOps cycle

Playday Games, a Hong Kong-based mobile game developer behind “Let’s Farm” and “Village and Farm,” was building in AWS Lambda and struggling to debug serverless code efficiently. Although the team used tools like Pycharm, Datadog, and Sentry, they still relied on adding log lines to understand what was happening in Lambda, which made finding bugs slow and frustrating.

Rookout gave Playday Games a better way to debug by adding non-breaking breakpoints that work alongside Sentry, letting developers inspect live application state without disrupting code. With Rookout, Playday reduced serverless debugging time by 3x to 6x, cutting fix times from up to an hour to just 5–10 minutes and speeding up its DevOps cycle.

Playday Games

Chris Law

Backend Engineer