Yesterday, my good friends up at United Front Games had their game True Crime cancelled by Activision. My team worked closely with United Front on ModNation Racers, so I know firsthand that UFG is a standup studio of hardworking guys and gals. There’s much that this caused me to reflect on, especially in regards to… [Read more…]
June 14, 2010
My atomic rant has gotten a ton of traffic – more than I forsaw. Seems atomicity is a hot topic in the web world these days. My guess is increasing user concurrency, coupled with more interactive apps, exposes all sorts of edge cases. Throw in some horizontal scaling/sharding and it gets really nasty really quickly.… [Read more…]
February 18, 2010
Spoiler: If you’re part of the ADHD generation and want to skip learning and go straight to the punchline, use Redis and redis-objects for all your atomic data needs. Brush Up Your Resume You are probably not handling atomic operations properly in your app, and probably have some nasty lurking race conditions. The worst part… [Read more…]
October 16, 2008
Many people go their whole lives without finding their doppelganger, but not me. By chance last weekend I picked up a New York Times and flipped to the Business section. There, staring back at me, was this! I’ve been so absent-minded lately, that I thought it may actually be me. Did I go to London… [Read more…]
February 10, 2011
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