• Brotato
• Diablo 1 via devilutionx, i do a run through of normal difficulty atleast once a year
• tainted grail fall of avalon, don’t get how this is verified, fps often dips into low 20s. game itself seems fun though
• will probably start clair obscur.

yes, i totally abandoned playing soul reaver, because i kept playing other games :D

I have read about this related to how FB does it. In general this means that fetching from the DB and keep it in memory to work with right? So we assume that the cached data is outdated to some extend?

correct, introducing caching can result in returning outdated data for awhile, which is usually not a huge deal. those caches can get tricky, but they should take pressure from your db, if you’re scenario is read heavy, which is often the case. Research existing caching solutions before running ahead and implementing something from scratch, especially if you need a cache distirbuted between multiple instances of your service. In the Java world that would be something like Infinispan, but your ecosystem might over better integration with other solutions.

I was able to convince management to put money into a new server (SSD thank god). So thank you for your emphasizes. We are also migrating to PostgreSQL from SQL server, and refactor the whole approach and design in general.

having management on board is great and the new hardware should help a lot, migrating to another RDBMS sounds scary, but probably worth it if your organisation has more expertise with it.

generate indexes

they won’t help you with your duplicates, they will help speed up your reads but could slow down writes. building a good index is not trivial, but nothing is when it comes to performance tuning a database, it’s tradeoff after tradeoff. The best way to handle identical rows of data is to not write them usually, but i don’t know your system nor its history, maybe there is or was a good reason for its current state.

probably, but you might have to change some graphics settings

as described in the comments here

• spent time to generate/optomize your indexes.
• faster storage/cpu/ram for your rdbms
• get the data needed by specific services into the service, only get the data from a central place if you have to (spinning up a new instance, another service changes state of data you need, which is a warning sign in itself that your architecture is brittle…)
• faster storage/cpu/ram
• generate indexes
• 2nd level cache shared between services
• establish a faster datastore for often requested data thats used by multiple services (that might be something like redis, or another rdbms on beefier hardware)
• optimize queries
• generate indexes
• faster storage/cpu/ram

gittea ltd was founded without adhering to the governance model gittea had and also claimed copyright on atleast the name and logo of gittea. many felt a non-profit would be a better way to organize development and thats how codeberg e.v. came to be.

the problem is not, and never was offering support and service against money, you can right now start selling forgejo if you’d desire to, it was allways about how the project itself should be organized.

• Refactoring by Martin Fowler, having patterns to help identify parts of code that could be changed for the better helps a lot.
• Test-Driven Development with Python, because testing is important and you should atleast have tests in mind when writing you code, even if you dont write them first. I like this one, because it’s very hands-on.
• Head first java by Sierra and Bates, good introduction to programming with languages that offer object orientation and not as dry as the gang of four book, but definitely aimed at beginners
• Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Richards and Ford, working as a programmer often means talking with big picture people or being one yourself, and they have their own strange language.
• Domain Driven Design by Evans, for a similiar reason as Fundamentals of Software Architecture.
• Neuromancer by William Gibson, because fun is important ;)

i have a 7 in 1 usb c hub from anker which is use with the deck and a hdmi monitor the deck lies flat on the table if i use the hub.

I don’t know if it’s more or less toxic than the dota2 games.

no, i don’t think there is a big difference in ‘difficulty’ between both languages.

there is just more material for java, and as i said the languages are very similar, so learing to program in java wont be a waste of time if you plan to only use c# after that, because the concepts you learned a long the way will easily carry over.

bring your decks into the same WLAN-network to play games that don’t rely on online servers.

a possible game could be “Alien Swarm: reactive drop”, a so called twin stick shooter , the top down perspective helps too keep your orientation and the stressful sequences are often telegraphed.

“towerfall ascension” is a 2d action game that can be played in coop, which is easy to pickup (but it does get difficult)

learn java, way more material for that, but conceptionally very similar to c#. I suggest a book like “Head first Java”.

after that c# will be much easier to grasp.

i mean: provide a link to the repo in your posts body, do not just link to your blog ;)

it would be a good start to include a link to a git repo in your posts, when you share your blog posts.

if your code is hosted somewhere where you can create issues and tag them, create issues and tag them as “contribution welcome” or “good first issue”.

github is probably the best plattform to get contributions, simply because it’s the biggest and so many people already have an account there.

but complex reworks or new features are probably nothing a random contributor will provide, but you or close collaborators.

played through it on release, act 1 and act 2 were fine, occasional dips below 30fps.

act 3 had a lot off texture pop in and walls that would only appear after some seconds, but the game received performance patches after i finished it, so probably better now.

vulkan renderer, everything on low, fsr, no dynamic resolution.

i am playing a grenade throwing merc, framerate was mostly stable @ 30fps but i can see how a summoner build or some of thos crazy walking firework simulators people turn there chars into might be to much for the deck.

higher tier maps might also be tough as they contain more rare monster, with more effects, but i don’t know how many people even interact with that kind of content, iam certainly far away from it playing without trading.

path of exile 2, campaign and maps up to tier 5 ran fine so far :)

also bought the soul reaver remake, but path of exile 2 ran fine so far…

“Domain Driven Design” by Eric Evans, aka the blue book. It’s very dense however and very object oriented, but concepts apply even if you dont work with object oriented languages, you might have to do more footwork to get from a domain model to services that adhere to the model.

“Head first Software Architecture” might be an easier on ramp and touches on simmiliar concepts.

yes, this is exactly what you have to think about. the left example even aknowledges that deadlines for “tasks” might be different from deadlines for “payments”, which suggests that the abstraction is not “clean”.

“logs show a reoccuring error in layer 8 everytime a subset of users engages with the system, reassigning this to the service desk to gather more information.”

i’ve read that on real ticket, i’ve laughed about it. it also makes me glad that i don’t do customer support, i don’t have the patience to keep explaining the same people that they keep doing something wrong and i lack the diplomacy skills to engage with devs that believe to be infallible and pretend that bug reports are personal insults against them.

I’d Agree in most cases, but not in this one.

Rigor in definitions allows us to express a lot of complex things in a compact form. this allows us to treat “Cars” as something different than “Motorcycles” while both a motorized vehicles.

the same is true for REST-API and other API-Types, while all of them are just a means to allow services to exchange data, they tell us a lot about how this exchange happens and what to expect, but only if we use the words in a way that they represent the concept they were meant to represent. Otherwise we end up with meaningless buzz words like “rest”, “agile”, “scrum”, “artificial intelligence” and so forth, instead of meaningful terms found in the jargon of other engineering disciplines like “magnetism”, “gravity” or “motor”.

i’ve only read about rust, but is there a way to influence those automatic implementations?

equality for example could be that somethings literally point to the same thing in memory, or it could be that two structs have only values that are equal to each other