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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.

Server-Side Architecture. Front-End Servers and Client-Side Random Load Balancing

December 28, 2015 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Front-End Servers as an Offensive Line

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[about Round-Robin DNS] one of these returned IPs can get cached by a Big Fat DNS server, and then get distributed to many thousands of clients

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As a rule of thumb, Front-End Servers are a Good Thing™

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. I-IIIOn.System ArchitectureDistributed systems(Re)Actors

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Server-Side MMO Architecture. Naïve, Web-Based, and Classical Deployment Architectures

December 21, 2015 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Building from servers

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If you disrupt the game-event-currently-in-progress for more than 0.5-2 minutes, for almost-any synchronous multi-player game you won't be able to get the same players back, and will need to rollback the game event anyway.

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However, keep in mind, that all fall-tolerant solutions are complicated, costly, and for the games realm I generally consider them as an over-engineering (even by my standards).

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. I-IIIOn.System ArchitectureDistributed systems(Re)Actors

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Client-Side. Client Architecture Diagram, Threads, and Game Loop

December 14, 2015 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Queues and Finite State Machines (QnFSM) architecture diagram

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To have a good concurrency model, it is not strictly necessary to program in Erlang

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Most of developers agree that FSM-based programming is beneficial in the medium- to long-run.

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. I-IIIOn.System ArchitectureDesign decisions(Re)Actors

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Client-Side. On Debugging Distributed Systems, Deterministic Logic, and Finite State Machines

December 7, 2015 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Finite State Machine, Hare Style

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After your logic has failed in production, you can “replay” this inputs-log on your functionally identical in-house system, and the bug will be reproduced at the very same point where it has originally happened.

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You can implement your Finite State Machine as a deterministic variation of a usual event-driven program

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. I-IIIOn.System ArchitectureDistributed systems(Re)ActorsOn.ProgrammingDebugging

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