What Web Developers can Learn from Game Developers

DJUGL presentation about queues (again!)

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1. a
   What Web Developers can Learn
   from Game Developers
   Armin Ronacher for DJUGL June 2013
   

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2. Hello, I'm Armin!
   I do Computers - with Python.
   Currently at Fireteam / Splash Damage.
   We do Internet for Pointy Shooty Games. c
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3. Web/Backend Game/Core-Tech Art/Sound
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4. Web/Backend Game/Core-Tech Art/Sound
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5. Why is Python not used in Games?
   

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6. Slow?
   

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7. Slow?
   

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8. C & C
   

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9. Community & Concurrency
   

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10. others follow
    someone starts
    gets successful
    

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11. others follow
    someone starts
    gets successful
    and that's why everybody used PHP
    

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12. nobody has been fired for choosing Unreal
    

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13. 60FPS

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14. Each Actor runs a “Thread”
    work -> suspend -> wait -> work -> suspend -> work -> …
    

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15. Lua
    Unreal Script
    C#
    JavaScript
    The Industry Standard
    

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16. Playstation 3
    256MB + 256MB RAM
    3.2 GHz Processor
    6 + 1 SPUs
    

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17. Playstation 3
    256MB + 256MB RAM
    3.2 GHz Processor
    6 + 1 SPUs
    that's not a lot
    

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18. #9
    Core

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19. #9
    Core

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20. #9
    Core

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21. #9
    Core

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22. What does that have to do with Web?
    

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23. Remember the Heroku Rap-Genius Incident?
    

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24. Task Queues >> Random Routing
    

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25. we do things because others do it too
    and that's not always good :-(
    

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26. Python is not going to get better at
    concurrency :-(
    

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27. Qua e
    Tn!
    

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28. ALL THE THINGS!
    

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29. Optimize the right things
    

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30. Tools are Important
    

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31. That's it.
    Now ask questions.
    And add me on twitter: @mitsuhiko
    Like my work? gittip.com/mitsuhiko
    Slides at lucumr.pocoo.org/talks
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