In response to this - afaik, there is no evidence that Pokemon Go is running stateful game simulation servers for their game, especially those that would power something like an FPS or MMO (They may be, but I've not seen any public evidence of it), which is what I'm referring to in this article. Sounds like I should have been clearer on this point, as you aren't the first to point this out.

Yeah, i never implied the Pokemon GO server was stateful (and it definitely isn't) in the way that other MMOs/FPSs that require persistent connections are. However, you can't say that it isn't a "game server".

I looked through comments to see if anyone had pointed it out and didn't see anything. Figured maybe you'd be interested to know that Kubernetes was used for something so massive. My bad.

No worries - and thanks for pointing it out (I meant you weren't the first person to say this to me). It's worth the clarification.

It's an interesting differentiation in vocabulary between the games industry and what would be the wider technical community, in my experience - a "game server" is a simulation server when talking about it in the games industry. I should have made a note of that in the previous article.