What Web Developers can Learn from Game Developers

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   a What Web Developers can Learn from Game Developers Armin

   Ronacher for DJUGL June 2013
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   Hello, I'm Armin! I do Computers - with Python. Currently

   at Fireteam / Splash Damage. We do Internet for Pointy Shooty Games. c w
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   Web/Backend Game/Core-Tech Art/Sound *

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   Web/Backend Game/Core-Tech Art/Sound *

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   Why is Python not used in Games?

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   Slow?

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   Slow?

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   C & C

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   Community & Concurrency

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    others follow someone starts gets successful

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    others follow someone starts gets successful and that's why everybody

    used PHP
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    nobody has been fired for choosing Unreal

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    60FPS

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

    -> work -> suspend -> work -> …
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    Lua Unreal Script C# JavaScript The Industry Standard

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    Playstation 3 256MB + 256MB RAM 3.2 GHz Processor 6

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

    + 1 SPUs that's not a lot
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    #9 Core

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    #9 Core

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    #9 Core

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    #9 Core

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    What does that have to do with Web?

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    Remember the Heroku Rap-Genius Incident?

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    Task Queues >> Random Routing

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    we do things because others do it too and that's

    not always good :-(
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    Python is not going to get better at concurrency :-(

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    Qua e Tn!

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    ALL THE THINGS!

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    Optimize the right things

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    Tools are Important

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    That's it. Now ask questions. And add me on twitter:

    @mitsuhiko Like my work? gittip.com/mitsuhiko Slides at lucumr.pocoo.org/talks ?