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 ?