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Assorted Rants Tagged ‘Protocol’, page 1:

Marshalling and Encodings

posted May 16, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Encoded data size is especially important for Client-Server communications, and less important (within reason) for Server-to-Server ones and for locally-stored format.”
Another Quote:	“On the other hand, due to being optimized for CPU operation, Flatbuffers are NOT optimized space-wise; even compared to not-so-optimal-space-wise Google Protocol Buffers, Flatbuffers can lose additional 1.5x in size”
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posted May 2, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“TCP is a byte stream, the whole byte stream and nothing but the byte stream”
Another Quote:	“if all packets reach Client, there isn’t that much difference between TCP and UDP”
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posted April 25, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Yes, you DO need to encrypt your UDP traffic. And no, using UDP is NOT a valid excuse to skip encryption”
Another Quote:	“Personally, I prefer to think of it as of insurance – when I’m paying my premiums in hope that my money will go to waste.”
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posted April 18, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“you may think of UDP as of an analog of good old C: you can do pretty much everything, but it is not because the language helps you – it is rather because it doesn’t stand in the way :-)”
Another Quote:	“As most of the routers (including pretty much every backbone router out there) are not configured to support multicast, it makes multicast over the public Internet hopeless :-(“
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posted February 22, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“You can still use HLAPI despite its shortcomings”
Another Quote:	“If you’re using one of the engines above (and not your own one), and your game requires Client-Driven Development Flow, you may want to start with a single-player Unity 5, or with a single-player UE4.”
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posted February 15, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Modifying generated code usually qualifies as a Really Bad Idea”
Another Quote:	“How much can be gained by each of such specialized encodings – still depends on the game, but if you can try-and-test a dozen of different encodings within a few hours – it will usually allow you to learn quite a few things about your traffic (and to optimize things both visually and traffic-wise too).”
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posted February 8, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“In other words, you can write your code ‘as if’ all-your-code-within-the-same-FSM executed within the same thread”
Another Quote:	“As soon as we have these two parts of processing – we can say that our Server-to-Server communication is tolerant to all kinds of transient inter-server disconnects”
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