Thanks Michael - this is a great and helpful explanation! When you
mention "stateless set of servers", do you mean something like
Terracota? If not, is there another solution that you would recommend?
I actually started reading about Terracota and I also run into this:
http://www.smartfoxserver.com/
Which seems to be a Java based game server that uses Terracota.
Regards,
Joe
On 6/8/2014 11:18 PM, Michael Rose wrote:
You could make Storm do what you want, but it's not going to work well
for you. A normal client/server is vastly more suited to the type of
workload you want.
UDP may have less overhead, but overall a stall in processing is much
more costly. In a datacenter, TCP is the way to go for reliable
communications. UDP is popular between game client & server because of
packet loss's effect on TCP RTT, and packet loss is common between
consumers and game servers. Not as much between DC nodes.
Storm's support for other languages isn't exactly anything special.
You could effect the same interface in non-Storm code. Again, Storm
can do processing in low-latency situations (<100ms), but it's not
what you want. You really, really don't want Storm for this
application. A custom application (yes, you can indeed use Netty UDP)
will be much much better for you.
If your game server is just running business logic, a totally
stateless set of servers is really the way to go.
Michael Rose (@Xorlev <https://twitter.com/xorlev>)
Senior Platform Engineer, FullContact <http://www.fullcontact.com/>
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Why do you think that UDP is faster?
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 6:27 PM, joe roberts
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
To make it faster!
On 6/8/2014 8:27 PM, Ted Dunning wrote:
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 12:12 PM, joe roberts
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Also, it seems Storm uses TCP via ZeroMQ by default -Is
that right? And if so, can it be switched to use UDP or
UDT instead, perhaps by replacing ZeroMQ with Netty?
Why would you want that?
