What Web Developers can Learn from Game Developers

DJUGL presentation about queues (again!)

Transcript

1. a What Web Developers can Learn from Game Developers Armin Ronacher for DJUGL June 2013
2. Hello, I'm Armin! I do Computers - with Python. Currently at Fireteam / Splash Damage. We do Internet for Pointy Shooty Games. c w
3. Web/Backend Game/Core-Tech Art/Sound *
4. Web/Backend Game/Core-Tech Art/Sound *
5. Why is Python not used in Games?
6. Slow?
7. Slow?
8. C & C
9. Community & Concurrency
10. others follow someone starts gets successful
11. others follow someone starts gets successful and that's why everybody used PHP
12. nobody has been fired for choosing Unreal
13. 60FPS
14. Each Actor runs a “Thread” work -> suspend -> wait -> work -> suspend -> work -> …
15. Lua Unreal Script C# JavaScript The Industry Standard
16. Playstation 3 256MB + 256MB RAM 3.2 GHz Processor 6 + 1 SPUs
17. Playstation 3 256MB + 256MB RAM 3.2 GHz Processor 6 + 1 SPUs that's not a lot
18. #9 Core
19. #9 Core
20. #9 Core
21. #9 Core
22. What does that have to do with Web?
23. Remember the Heroku Rap-Genius Incident?
24. Task Queues >> Random Routing
25. we do things because others do it too and that's not always good :-(
26. Python is not going to get better at concurrency :-(
27. Qua e Tn!
28. ALL THE THINGS!
29. Optimize the right things
30. Tools are Important
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 ?