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Development & Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games, page 6:

Preparing to Deploy your Game: To Cloud or Not to Cloud?

Quote: “In fact, the following “hybrid” model is more optimal than both pure cloud-based and pure rental-based ones”
Another Quote: “One relatively recent and certainly welcome addition to the cloud scene, is so-called “bare-metal cloud” servers.”
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Production Crashes. Post-factum Debugging. Logging. Replayable Deterministic Re(Actors)

Quote: “I’ve seen game companies with hundreds of thousands of dollars lost per hour of unplanned server downtime.”
Another Quote: “deterministic debugging is by far the best thing I have seen for production debugging.”
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(Almost-)Zero-Additional-Latency UDP-over-TCP

Quote: “we realize that for some of the Clients – UDP just doesn’t work because of some weird firewall between Client and Server”
Another Quote: “there is nothing to block us (so head-of-line blocking doesn’t apply)”
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TCP Peculiarities as Applied to Games, Part II

Quote: “Nagle’s algorithm aims to deal with those [CENSORED] developers who’re trying to send data over TCP in really small chunks (like 1 byte each time)”
Another Quote: “it seems that “proportional rate reduction” (PRR, reportedly used by Linux kernels by default starting from 3.2) performs for gaming purposes a little bit better than the alternatives”
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TCP Peculiarities for Games, part 1

Quote: “the best we can hope when using a single TCP connection over 5%-loss channel – is having 1.5-second “lag spike” every 5 or so minutes, and a 3-second “lag spike” every 2 hours.”
Another Quote: “we may already have the-information-we-need on the receiving host – but this information is hidden from us by layers of abstraction on receiving side”
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