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The Software Architecture of Palia

by jaaron on 4/4/24, 12:31 AM with 13 comments

• by jaaron on 4/4/24, 12:31 AM

  A survey of all the services, components, libraries and languages that went into building Palia: a cozy MMO.

• by derelicta on 4/4/24, 2:21 PM

  I did expect MMOs to have fairly complex architectures but damn. I have nothing to compare it against but it still makes me slightly dizzy.

• by ukuina on 4/4/24, 4:41 AM

  I appreciate when teams provide such a detailed write-up of their tech stacks. The callouts to bad choices and recovery (e.g., Nomad) is also refreshing to see.

  Thank you for the share!

• by eliasson on 4/4/24, 7:22 AM

  Thanks for sharing! I really enjoy reading these types of articles.

  I was a bit surprised to see Perforce being used (I'm not a game developer), I have not come across it since the early 2000s. From what I recall it was very good dealing with merges.

• by namaljayathunga on 4/8/24, 1:05 PM

  Thanks for sharing! It is really helpful to learn System Design.

• by speps on 4/4/24, 8:15 AM

  Where I used to work they patented the way the servers are kept busy so careful on what you end up implementing for that...

  https://patents.google.com/patent/EP3563559B1/en