You understand what you just said is how you designed and architected and developed applications 15 years ago, not today, right? I’m a Cloud Enterprise Architect who does this for a living. In fact, was recruited to work for Amazon AND AWS. The point is cost is not a factor for a properly developed modern application as elasticity enables upward AND downward scaling based on appropriate criteria.
Effectively, no modern application has “overhead” in a traditional sense. Most of the functions in New World should be “serverless” Lambda (Knative) type calls that spin up and down upon use. The few things that require persistent availability should scale up and down constantly throughout the day. There only “overhead” is the number of worker nodes in the cluster, which, themselves, can scale up or down.
I mean yeah, Lamda would be good, not sure how well it handles the volume of workers… not super familiar with its scalability. PM me which team you’re on internally.
I’m a Principle Storage Architect. I can give examples of how bad patches from major companies have broken environments and caused days-long outages. Many, many examples. Anyone in IT can.
People getting bent over a patch going sideways are being idiots, let alone the first patch to a new production environment having issues. MMO patches being F—ed is a cliche, at this point.
LOL
Ranting due to a time extension in maintenance is ike yelling at water for not boiling fast enough. It will happen when it happens, and no amount of ranting is going to change that.
If the game is broken then the sell orders mean nothing. I’m looking for the gold to enhance my play in the core game. Even if they all got deleted, I’m not rich, but I’m not broke either. I’ll get more items and put them back on sale.
You’d think with the availability that people demand from New World, they were paying a subscription for the services. Why don’t you clean your room and shower if you’re finding no purpose during this window of downtime?
Lamda handles scale tremendously, in that you, the user, don’t have to, it does it for you. And the innate ability to scale to 0 is key :). And I do not work for AWS or Amazon. I elected IBM :). Didn’t like the PIP culture of my Amazon friends ;).
Don’t see anything about the bug “Achievements” showing 0% or “pinned” missions disappearing from player screens so you can’t see what you have quest wise…Those are pretty major bugs…yet no mention of them.
Exactly, we don’t have any information about this to even have a legitimate opinion. Software is not simple, especially when a network is involved, among other things. What would be fun to see is a post mortem. Celebrate the failure so you can learn and improve. Who knows, some of us out here might be able to offer some thoughts
