This is part four of a fivefour-part series on scaling game servers with Kubernetes. In the previous three posts, we hosted our game servers on Kubernetes, measured and limited their resource usage, and scaled up the nodes in our cluster based on that usage. Now we need to tackle the harder problem: scaling down the […]
This is part three of a fivefour-part series on scaling game servers with Kubernetes. In the previous two posts we looked at hosting dedicated game servers on Kubernetes and measuring and limiting their memory and CPU resources. In this instalment we look at how we can use the CPU information from the previous post to […]
This is part two of a fivefour-part series on scaling game servers with Kubernetes. In the part 1 of this series, we looked at how we could take our dedicated game server, containerise it with Docker, and then host and manage it on Kubernetes, which was an excellent start. However since our Kubernetes clusters are generally of […]
This is part one of a fivefour-part series on scaling game servers with Kubernetes. For the past year and a half, I’ve been researching and building a variety of multiplayer games. Particularly those in the MMO or FPS genres, as they have some unique and very interesting requirements for communication protocols and scaling strategies. Due to my […]
If you are a game developer that works on any kind of mobile, multiplayer or online internet connected game, you may want to attend Google Cloud’s premier conference in San Francisco, Cloud NEXT, especially since it is conveniently timed right after GDC. Even if you aren’t attending GDC, if you are building any backend infrastructure […]
Earlier this year, I had the honour of presenting at Google I/O 2016, on how to build multiplayer games with Firebase. If you aren’t familiar with Firebase, it’s a fantastic Backend-as-a-Service that has several features, most notably the Realtime Database, that can cut down the amount of time for certain types of games quite drastically. In […]
This release of Brute, provides no new features, but is instead a migration from using CLJX as the support for both Clojure and ClojureScript at once, to upgrading to Clojure 1.7, and utilising the (relatively?) new feature of Reader Conditionals. In terms of changing the implementing code, this was a fairly straightforward task. It was essentially […]
I’ve been having lots of fun this break getting back into writing a top down racing game that I had originally started (way) earlier in the year, so I thought I would start writing a little dev diary on it, to aid me in keeping up my momentum in developing it. It’s still very much in the prototype phase, […]
Brute has a few new features with this new release. The most exciting is that thanks to the cljx project, and the hard work of Martin Janiczek, Brute now supports both Clojure and ClojureScript! There are also a couple of new features, including an implementation of update-component that takes a function and arguments to allow you […]
This post could also be entitled How I Learned to Love Immutability, and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next! A few weeks ago I released a library called Brute, which is an Entity Component System Library for Clojure. This was the first Clojure library I have released, and I wanted it to be as easy to use […]