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We’re treating our readers as intelligent beings who can use Google and/or StackOverflow, where all such specific questions were answered more than once.

What you will find is opinions, more opinions, and even more opinions on all the aspects of software development - and with a large chunk of them based on real-world experience too.

Your mileage may vary. Batteries not included.

Payment Processing. Credit Cards. Chargebacks and Collateral Damage

December 20, 2016 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Zero Chargeback Guarantee

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Chargeback monster will come from under the bed and will eat all your hard-earned money!

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it is trivial to develop a system with guaranteed zero chargeback rate – to achieve this, it is sufficient to decline each and every transaction at pre-filter stage

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. IV-VI1st beta of Vol. VII-IXOn.SecurityFraud Prevention

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Update on Progress with “Development & Deployment of MOGs” book, and updated ToC too

December 15, 2016 by “No Bugs” Bunny

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I have to admit that I neglected to post updates about the progress with my “Development & Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games” book. Sure, new “1st beta” Chapters from upcoming Vol. 2 are posted every week, but any information about the progress of Vol. 1 was available only on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. I am happy

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGsTable of ContentsOtherAnnouncements

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Gradual OLTP DB Development - from Zero to 10 Billion Transactions per Year and Beyond

December 13, 2016 by “No Bugs” Bunny

10 transactions per second to 10K transactions per second

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to make an efficient representation usable for OLAP – we need to modify our data on its way to OLAP replicas

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Each of the DB Server Apps is a replica master, but all replica targets are within the same Replica DB

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. IV-VIOn.System ArchitectureDesign decisionsDistributed systems(Re)Actors

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Facelift for ‘No Bugs’ – Take 2

December 7, 2016 by “No Bugs” Bunny

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Some time earlier, we have conducted a poll to see which of “No Bug” faces our visitors like better. Unfortunately, results were inconclusive – so, we decided to run the poll again (and promised to do it on Kickstarter too), adding the third face to the mix. Here it goes – your vote for a […]

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