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Development & Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games – now on Leanpub

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Quote: “I am happy to let everybody know that from now on, Vol.1 of my upcoming book “Development & Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games” is available via Leanpub“
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Direct Payment Processing. Recovery from ‘Unknown’ Transaction Status. PCI DSS.

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Quote: “With the Direct Processing, customer should trust us (the merchant) with their details”
Another Quote: “On the other hand, most of PCI DSS requirements make perfect sense regardless of formal compliance”
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Determinism: Requirements vs Features

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Abstract: Apparently, in practice there is big difference between cross-platform determinism and same-executable determinism, both in abilities they can provide, and from implementation complexity point of view
Quote: “Cross-platform determinism is the strictest definition of determinism I know; not surprisingly, there are quite a few factors which can break it”
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Payment Processing. Credit Cards. Chargebacks and Collateral Damage

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Quote: “Chargeback monster will come from under the bed and will eat all your hard-earned money!”
Another Quote: “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”
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Update on Progress with “Development & Deployment of MOGs” book, and updated ToC too

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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 […]

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

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Quote: “to make an efficient representation usable for OLAP – we need to modify our data on its way to OLAP replicas”
Another Quote: “Each of the DB Server Apps is a replica master, but all replica targets are within the same Replica DB”
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Facelift for ‘No Bugs’ – Take 2

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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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