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Practical Configuration Practices @ Imaginary Cogs
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On the operation of massively multiplayer online games. Posted on April 12th, 2012. We’ve established that it’s way simple. To manage configurations across a large number of servers. This is great for operating data centers. It’s also great for code promotion: by using configuration management consistently throughout your server environments, you reduce the chances of problems when pushing server code and data live. In practice, there’s also a content development path that has to go hand in hand wi...
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GDC 2012 Notes: Zynga Infrastructure Panel @ Imaginary Cogs
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On the operation of massively multiplayer online games. GDC 2012 Notes: Zynga Infrastructure Panel. Posted on October 16th, 2012. My commentary is in footnotes because it’s been too long since I used my nifty footnote plugin. Hao Chen (Studio CTO Farmville 2), Jesse Willett (Studio CTO Chefville). Studio CTOs provide technical direction and responsible for technical health of the games. Web apps vs Web games. Size of user data is much larger for games. User generated map drives this. Blocking APIs are bad.
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DevOps Principles @ Imaginary Cogs
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On the operation of massively multiplayer online games. Posted on April 2nd, 2012. Devops was a concept on the horizon two years ago. Second, there’s a tendency for groups using the same techniques to talk more. Anything that gets groups to talk more is a good thing. I have a grand plan to invent marketops sometime in the next couple of years just so I can get marketing and operations groups to talk more. Mardevops comes next. Don’t think I’m not serious. However, you’re still dealing with cables a...
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Releases and Checksums @ Imaginary Cogs
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On the operation of massively multiplayer online games. Posted on April 13th, 2012. Big sympathies for my peers and compatriots over at Bioware Austin today. The live. Servers are down for the next seven hours or so. Also, if you’re looking at checksums which were also generated by the build system, you need to account for the possibility that those checksums are wrong. Single points of failure can occur in software as well as hardware. Mail (will not be published) (required). GDC Online 2012 Slides.
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Clouds and MMOs @ Imaginary Cogs
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On the operation of massively multiplayer online games. Posted on April 19th, 2012. Although they’ve reduced EC2 usage. Because it’s cheaper to run enough servers for baseline usage in their own data centers. There are, likewise, a ton of Web startups using EC2 and other public clouds to minimize capital expenditure going into the launch of a new product. Web services are non-persistent. (Mostly. Yes, SPDY. MMO servers are persistent. (Mostly. I’m sure there are exceptions, which I would lo...On Data Cen...
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GDC Online @ Imaginary Cogs
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On the operation of massively multiplayer online games. Posted on August 23rd, 2012. I’m very pleased to let y’all know that I’ll be presenting at GDC Online. In Austin this October. My session is “ Devops: Bringing Development and Operations Together for Better Everything. Mail (will not be published) (required). GDC Online 2012 Slides. GDC 2012 Notes: Zynga Infrastructure Panel. GDC Online 2012 Discussion. On Data Center Pictures. On Data Center Pictures. On Obligatory iPad Post. On Obligatory iPad Post.
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On the operation of massively multiplayer online games. GDC Online 2012 Slides. Posted on October 27th, 2012. Big ol’ 17 MB PDF file available right here. GDC 2012 Notes: Zynga Infrastructure Panel. Posted on October 16th, 2012. My commentary is in footnotes because it’s been too long since I used my nifty footnote plugin. Read the rest of this entry ». Posted on May 5th, 2012. Big cheers to my old team and friends at ZeniMax Online Studios. Who got to announce. Posted on June 17th, 2010. Lots of blades ...
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It’s All Code @ Imaginary Cogs
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On the operation of massively multiplayer online games. It’s All Code. Posted on May 1st, 2012. I have been pretty busy with travel lately, but it turns out to be sort of reasonable to write on an iPad while flying. This post is brought to you by JetBlue. Let’s talk about a few best engineering practices as they apply to technical operations. 2: Integrate continuously. When you change something about a machine build, test that change in a local VM. (Take a look at Vagrant. That’s a pretty compellin...
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Go Team Elder! @ Imaginary Cogs
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On the operation of massively multiplayer online games. Posted on May 5th, 2012. Big cheers to my old team and friends at ZeniMax Online Studios. Who got to announce. Yesterday. Note: announcement Web site living in the cloud. Very nice. Mail (will not be published) (required). GDC Online 2012 Slides. GDC 2012 Notes: Zynga Infrastructure Panel. GDC Online 2012 Discussion. On Data Center Pictures. On Data Center Pictures. On Obligatory iPad Post. On Obligatory iPad Post. Game and Code Design. What Do I Do?
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GDC Online 2012 Slides @ Imaginary Cogs
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On the operation of massively multiplayer online games. GDC Online 2012 Slides. Posted on October 27th, 2012. Big ol’ 17 MB PDF file available right here. Mail (will not be published) (required). GDC Online 2012 Slides. GDC 2012 Notes: Zynga Infrastructure Panel. GDC Online 2012 Discussion. On Data Center Pictures. On Data Center Pictures. On Obligatory iPad Post. On Obligatory iPad Post. Game and Code Design. What Do I Do? The only haven you can trust. Designed by My Mobiles.