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Development & Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games, page 5:

Docker and MOGs

posted June 13, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Contrary to popular belief, there are benefits of Docker containers which go beyond providing poorly written programs with exact versions of their dependencies”
Another Quote:	“I do not buy a rather popular argument that “to achieve scalability, apps and middleware should be stateless””
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posted June 6, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“This communication channel (coming from Operations back to Development) is extremely important to have a game which is able to work anywhere-reliably in the real world”
Another Quote:	“Most importantly, our processes should allow these different production cycles to co-exist.”
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posted May 30, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“for quite a few applications out there, the most important feature of the RAID is not even redundancy, but greatly improved write latency. Moreover – this is the thing which we cannot possibly get from software RAID (!).”
Another Quote:	“As a rule of thumb – I am trying to keep the size of OLTP DB small enough to fit into RAM of the OLTP DB Server.”
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posted May 23, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“beware: “there are distros beyond the RedHat/Debian dichotomy – but if you’re reading this section looking for my advice on it – most likely you still have too little experience running Linux to look in that direction”
Another Quote:	“every time I disable Active Directory Service from a production server – I feel as a doctor who successfully removed a cancer tumor from a patient”
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posted May 9, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“beware: “being able to handle 1Gbit/s in general”, and “being able to handle 1Gbit/s in 60-byte packets” are often two very different things”
Another Quote:	“any heavily-writing DB is going to be quite sensitive to the latency of writing to the database log”
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posted May 4, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Abstract:	We kinda-finalized cover designs for the first three volumes of “Development and Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games” upcoming book
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posted April 18, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“in general – I suggest to have your first few servers rented, and think about scaling your load (including using cloud servers) while you’re running your playtesting/public beta/etc.”
Another Quote:	“most likely to rent just the space in the datacenter is going to be more expensive that renting space plus servers-in-that-space. Don’t ask me why it is the case – but it usually is”
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