GameRanger has six million users, tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of whom will be active simultaneously. His chat problem involved has moderate fan-out.
Scott Kevill does it on a single machine (last time I checked) with hand-rolled C++ and close attention to the details of how the Linux networking stack works.
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GameRanger has six million users, tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of whom will be active simultaneously. His chat problem involved has moderate fan-out.
Scott Kevill does it on a single machine (last time I checked) with hand-rolled C++ and close attention to the details of how the Linux networking stack works.
Single Machine??...really...would love to know more about the stack..
I am also interested to know, Do you've any links on this?
Scott gets very little press -- mostly when he picks up support for games after the publisher or matchmaking service abandons one.
I used to live in Perth and we'd sometimes hang out and mock the front page of HN.
http://www.gameranger.com/about/
Very interesting, do you have links available?