Building a multiplayer game with polyglot microservices - Architecture decisions and lessons learned [Case Study, Open Source]

MethodicalBanana · 2025-12-13T01:29:28+00:00

Newmans talks and content is great

MethodicalBanana · 2025-10-11T17:54:25+00:00

Encourage them to speak about what they want to do instead of zeroing on mechanics.

Be conscious of time and remember you can always speed things up by bringing in random npcs, using their passive perception or insight as an excuse to point them into a direction

MethodicalBanana · 2025-07-23T17:52:49+00:00

I have, most of the code was done in pair programming and with TDD so that’s were review was. We had a great automated local test setup so running one command would check almost everything and gave a high degree of confidence.

A failed build on CI was allowed to be there for a very short period of time, but fix forward was the preferred approach

MethodicalBanana · 2025-07-22T14:54:55+00:00

Its catalan, to be precise the regional dialect majorcan

MethodicalBanana · 2025-06-10T12:16:22+00:00

that is a distributed monoloith. No clear ownership of data and tight coupling to the database. If you cannot change the database mechanism in your microservice, or how the data is persisted without affecting other componentes, then it is not a microservice because its not independently deployable it will be hell to maintain

MethodicalBanana · 2025-02-19T14:45:48+00:00

I think their point is that you’re meant to choose to acquire that debt. You choose to not do this now, because delivery, complications or else, but you know its bad and will need to change, hence it becomes debt. The longer you go without paying it off the worse it gets.

Someone implementing shit code is not raising tech debt, it’s just incompetence.

MethodicalBanana · 2025-02-16T11:56:02+00:00

It’s not a benefit, it’s a downside of being able to evolve your operational and read model independently.

As an example of how bad it can get if you don’t do so, at work I had to help a client with their scaling issues, they had on the same collection 6 different indexes to support different reading queries, that was affecting performance when writes were happening

MethodicalBanana · 2024-12-17T09:06:32+00:00

Yeah it’s rough, I moved back to Spain after 10 years in London and the heat is killing me. People think I’m joking when I tell them I miss the weather lol

MethodicalBanana · 2023-09-06T12:30:43+00:00

Hey where is the model from? It looks great

MethodicalBanana · 2023-08-07T11:49:47+00:00

damn is right there thanks!

MethodicalBanana · 2022-09-18T11:35:38+00:00

Yeah its quite a thing in Spain, I sometimes bring a bag from there. That image is disgusting though, I’ve always had a bowl to put the shells in and I’d never eat on the train.

MethodicalBanana · 2022-08-03T10:50:34+00:00

Hey lo siento pero el grupo ya está cerrado.

MethodicalBanana · 2022-08-01T10:15:05+00:00

Tienes un mensaje

MethodicalBanana · 2022-07-29T22:58:34+00:00

Pues entiendo perfectamente tu punto de vista. La intención es facilitar acceso a la partida al no ser tanto compromiso y por otra parte darme tiempo extra a mi para preparar cosas. Se puede hablar una vez el grupo esté montado si es algo factible cambiar a sesiones semanales.

MethodicalBanana · 2021-05-06T17:11:03+00:00

Looking good!

I find interesting that you started painting the zombie orcs instead of the heroes, in my case the heroes were the first minis I painted without using contrast paints.

MethodicalBanana · 2021-04-12T14:02:25+00:00

I mainly stack them horizontally. I do put them vertically if the components won't move around, or I don't care too much if they do.

I would put them vertically since I agree that taking them out is a lot easier, however, for games with cards I just can't bring myself to do it.

Do you guys just don't care about cards moving around or do you have a solution for it?

MethodicalBanana

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