Cooking with Nomad: Powering the Fortnite creator ecosystem

This talk details how Epic Games leverages HashiCorp Nomad to manage the "cooking" process for Fortnite's creator ecosystem. This process involves reliably and securely converting user-generated content into game-ready assets using the Unreal Engine, handling tens of thousands of concurrent operations. The presentation covers Nomad's role in orchestrating these resource-intensive batch jobs, its task lifecycle features, runtime flexibility, file system isolation, and Windows support, along with challenges encountered and lessons learned.