In Here Be Monsters, we have a MMORPG that is content-heavy with over: 5000 items 800 recipes 500 locations 1500 quests and since the contents are highly connected, it makes balancing the game a rather interesting and challenging problem for our small team behind the project. The Challenge Consider a simple example involving the Camouflage …
This excellent book by Steve Krug was a real eye opener when I chanced upon it a few years ago. I’m not a UI/UX designer by trade or by training, and as a backend developer my appreciation for UI/UX has very little outlet in my day-to-day job either. But still I find plenty of symmetries …
Phew, finally back in familiar surroundings of London after back-to-back conferences in Italy where I spoke about Elm and F# at CodeMotion Rome and LambdaCon. It was a great couple of days, saw some interesting talks (I’ll write up some summaries later), met some old friends and made new ones. Here are the slides for …
A friend of mine, Roger Engelber, pointed me to a nice article on doing functional programming in Lua. The article detailed the steps to generate a flame like effects using a simple particle system. Of course, it naturally lead to me trying to do the same in Elm! To translate the approach was really …
Whilst talking with an ex-colleague, a question came up on how to implement the Stable Marriage problem using a message passing approach. Naturally, I wanted to answer that question with Erlang! Let’s first dissect the problem and decide what processes we need and how they need to interact with one another. The stable marriage problem …
It’s very uncharacteristic of me, but I went to a session on the product management track at QCon London – Melissa Perris’ “The Bad Idea Terminator”. Having gone in the room with the expectation of coming out not much wiser, I was pleasantly surprised to find myself in one of the best talks at the …
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I was attempting to make some changes to some fairly old code in our codebase (something I probably wrote myself…) which hasn’t been touched on for a while. Naturally, my first step is to understand what the code does, so I started by looking at the class where I need to make my changes. Perhaps …
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On day three of QCon London, we were treated to some really insightful stories from the likes of Google, Atlas and Spotify. And for the first time in a while Uber is talking publically about what they’ve been up to. The challenge for Uber’s platform is that both supply (Uber drivers) and demand (riders) …
QCon London 2015–Takeaways from “Scaling Uber’s realtime market platform” Read More »
Day three of QCon London was a treat, with full day tracks on architecture and microservices, it presented some nice challenges of what to see during the day. My favourite talk of the day was Randy Shoup’s Service Architectures at Scale, Lessons from Google and eBay. Randy kicked off the session by identifying a …
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