This was the first time I visited Game Developer Conference (GDC 2018). I’ve been working in the game cloud services and analytics space for almost 3 years now and most of our work has been for Microsoft’s AAA game titles …
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Consistent hashing is one of the techniques used to bake in scalability into the storage architecture of your system from grounds up.
In a distributed system, consistent hashing helps in solving the following scenarios:
My son gets a weekly allowance of $15. He takes that money every Friday and goes to Toys’R’Us to find two toys he can buy for $15. He wants to use all his money and does not want any …
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In the highly acclaimed book "The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People", Steven Covey states that we can greatly amplify our chances of success when we "Begin with the End in Mind".
For me, this means …
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Vector is like the swiss army knife of C++ STL containers. In the words of Bjarne Stroutsoup – “By default, use Vector when you need a container”. For mere mortals like us, we take this as gospel and …
Read MoreTypically, Game Engines want their telemetry data sent in a side thread which runs independently (asynchronously) from the main game loop. The telemetry thread packages up data as it comes in and executes a send via HTTP or websockets every …
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