builder VS awayto

We have a partnership with Hathora (https://hathora.dev/) so that our infrastructure can scale globally with high performance so we can provide the best user experience possible despite the realities of playing games over the internet. We also have some big plans around using rollback that we've covered elsewhere that we're cautiously optimistic about.

For multiplayer/server-less games, try Hathora

I cofounded Hathora (https://hathora.dev/) last year and we've been working on making it easier for smaller teams and individual developers to build scalable multiplayer games. We think the serverless model is the simplest approach, allowing you to dynamically provision a new instance of your game server when users or your matchmaker requests a new session.

We made this .io style demo to showcase this approach, and we're releasing the source code and documentation alongside with it.

Hey I'm the creator of https://hathora.dev/ which aims to provide a super simple deployment and scaling experience for session-based games. It's based on containers and can deploy any kind of game server. Check it out and see if it meets your needs!

At Hathora, our mission is to make it easier for developers to build, launch, and scale multiplayer games. One of the core technologies we have built is the Hathora Coordinator, which is our fully managed multi-tenant implementation of a Stateful Router.

Hi there! I started a company this year focused on multiplayer server infrastructure. We also built a multiplayer game framework for Typescript that has gotten 400+ stars on Github in the past few months: https://github.com/hathora/hathora

Would love to connect and exchange notes about multiplayer development -- if you're interested, my email is on my profile.

I've been working on my own realtime networking engine[0] and I think there are a few important points related to network syncing that are not mentioned in this article:

1) Bandwidth. The users internet can only handle so much network throughput, so for fast paced games (where you're sending data to each client at a rate of 20+ frames per second) it becomes important to optimize your per-frame packet size. This means using techniques like binary encoding and delta compression (only send diffs).

2) Server infrastructure. For client-server games, latency is going to be a function of server placement. If you only have a single server that is deployed in us-east and a bunch of users want to play with each other in Australia, their experience is going to suffer massively. Ideally you want a global network of servers and try to route users to their closest server.

3) TCP vs UDP. Packet loss is a very real problem, and you don't want clients to be stuck waiting for old packets to be resent to them when they already have the latest data. UDP makes a major difference in gameplay when dealing with lossy networks.

[0] https://github.com/hathora/hathora

I built a bunch of multiplayer games in the past and am now working on a framework to try and make it easier for others to do so: https://github.com/hathora/hathora

Hey folks, just putting this up as a demo link for people to try out. It's a project I've been working on since January and in light of recent framework posts lately I figured I'd start talking about my own.

The link is a demo site of Awayto v2 [1] (ignore the front page info that's all from version 1). Awayto [0] started out as a quick deploy app which grew to exist via AWS. I felt the need to make something that wasn't so closely tied to cloud infra, and Awayto v2 is that. Currently deployed on hetzner vms, using Tailscale for networking, there is a great deal of things going on. There is a local installation path planned, as long as you provide your own servers, etc, as it all just works on Tailscale anyway. I'm still working on docs, but the goal is to spit out _everything_ a dev might want to control in their stack. My current version of deploying to hetzner sets up 7 servers (2 ns, exit, build, app, db, svc). Git profile [2] for more info, tech stack info.

This is just a short demo and will only be up a limited time. There's no email validation or anything, gibberish is welcome. You are not being tracked. I know I need how-to docs, video assists, and all that. Slow and steady. It's being hosted from a single warehouse in the Pacific Northwest, be kind. Caching is in play and not perfectly tuned so maybe wait a few minutes if something doesn't automatically show up. Any feedback is awesome. Cheers!

[0] https://github.com/keybittech/awayto

This is really cool to see in this format. Over the last few years I have spent my free time crafting a framework under similar ideologies. I think a lot of web devs end up making similar tools throughout their career, but perhaps never get to the point of sharing what they make. I finally formalized my framework last year and am well into battle testing it with clients and different projects. https://awayto.dev

In a similar light to what this FWA group is presenting, I also have put forth some points about why this style of web dev architecture is important and effective. https://awayto.blog/posts/webapps/

Actually, I started out reading Million Dollar Consulting last year and one of the first chapters essentially talks about the importance of having a portfolio of work, and being able to capitalize off that body of knowledge within to grow more as a consultant. Well, I took that as a sign to formalize a framework that would allow me to do my development work in a much more effective manner, as well as provide more out of the box functionality for my clients.

Overall, the experience has been really positive. Obviously I don't get to use my own framework with every client, and that's a good thing. But, when working with clients who need basic business problems solved, having an FWA style framework is going to allow you to iterate so much faster than traditional MVC platforms. At least this has been my experience. Specifically to that point, with templated and loosely coupled parts, you don't have to spend too long building your web app to get it to do something exceptional.

Location: Pacific Northwest

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: For Contract or Consulting Only

Technologies: Java, C#, Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, React, Redux, Material UI, NodeJS, Webpack, Postgres, Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, HITRUST, FERPA

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-mccormick-76224429/

Email: [email protected]

My name is Joe. If you are looking for a consulting- or contract-based resource, I am interested and open to take on projects of many varieties. Over the last 10 years, my professional experience has touched on Education, Professional Consulting, IT Management, E-Commerce, and I hold my MA in English teaching. I have helmed numerous, extremely successful software development teams within the companies I have worked at, on projects of large complexity, some with millions of users and in revenue.

Check out https://awayto.dev which is a free open source web application platform. It uses React, Redux, Material UI, NodeJS, Typescript, Webpack, Postgres, Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, as well as my own custom scripts. Awayto makes it fast to deploy low-cost web applications and then have a skilled developer come in and build up your application.

Thank you for your time.

SEEKING WORK - Pacific Northwest - Contract/Consulting Remote/Onsite

If you are looking for a consulting- or contract-based resource, I am interested and open to take on projects of many varieties. Over the last 10 years, my professional experience has touched on Education, Professional Consulting, IT Management, E-Commerce, and I hold my MA in English teaching. I have led multiple successful development teams within the companies I have worked at, on projects of large complexity, some with millions of users and in revenue.

For my most recent completed work, I created https://awayto.dev, a free open source web application generation platform. It uses React, Redux, Material UI, NodeJS, Typescript, Webpack, Postgres, AWS Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, as well as my own custom scripts. Awayto makes it fast to deploy low-cost web applications and then have a skilled developer come in and build up your application. https://github.com/keybittech/awayto

Thank you for your time.

Javascript, Typescript, Java, C#, HTML, CSS, HITRUST, FERPA

Inquiries: [email protected] Website: https://awayto.dev LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-mccormick-76224429/

Willing to relocate: For Contract or Consulting Only

Technologies: Java, C#, Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, React, Redux, Material UI, NodeJS, Webpack, Postgres, Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, HITRUST, FERPA

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-mccormick-76224429/

Email: [email protected]

If you are looking for a consulting- or contract-based resource, I am interested and open to take on projects of many varieties. Over the last 10 years, my professional experience has touched on Education, Professional Consulting, IT Management, E-Commerce, and I hold my MA in English teaching. I have led multiple successful development teams within the companies I have worked at, on projects of large complexity, some with millions of users and in revenue.

For my most recent completed work, I created https://awayto.dev, a free open source web application generation platform. It uses React, Redux, Material UI, NodeJS, Typescript, Webpack, Postgres, AWS Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, as well as my own custom scripts. Awayto makes it fast to deploy low-cost web applications and then have a skilled developer come in and build up your application. https://github.com/keybittech/awayto

Thank you for your time.

I made a web application generation tool built on top of AWS. It deploys all the basics you need for a web application in the modern era (db, ui, api, users, groups, roles).

https://awayto.dev -- Check out the video

https://github.com/keybittech/awayto

If you like making tools for developers, contractors, and the business world. Come check us out and join the discord!

Hey there, I work on a project called Awayto. It generates and deploys web applications to AWS with all the base line bells and whistles (db, api, ui, user mgmt, react, typescript). I enjoy working on tools for developers and this is a project that's supposed to help developer consultants. It's a full stack framework, and there are of course many ways you could help or be involved, so if it sounds interesting please check it out!

https://github.com/keybittech/awayto

https://awayto.dev

A lot of the comments here are about difficulty cloud tech navigation/adoption. I create a framework built on top of AWS to try to alleviate a great deal of the infra management aspects of running web applications. It sets you up with all the basics out of the box in about 10 minutes (db, api, ui, users, groups, roles).

https://awayto.dev

https://github.com/keybittech/awayto

Along the same vein as other posts in this thread, startups and contractors need instantaneous test bed environments that support a lot out of the gate, and which can be the basis to scale from. I've been a contractor off and on for a few years and have seen this need first hand. So my tool is meant to fill in the foundations of great ideas, so those ideas can grow faster. I think that's an essential trait of cloud services that you will be hard-pressed to find elsewhere.

SEEKING WORK - Pacific Northwest - Contract/Consulting Remote/Onsite

If you are looking for a consulting- or contract-based resource, I am interested and open to take on projects of many varieties. Over the last 10 years, my professional experience has touched on Education, Professional Consulting, IT Management, E-Commerce, and I hold my MA in English teaching. I have led multiple successful development teams within the companies I have worked at, on projects of large complexity, some with millions of users and in revenue.

As a side project, I created https://awayto.dev, a free open source web application generation platform. It uses React, Redux, Material UI, NodeJS, Typescript, Webpack, Postgres, AWS Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, as well as my own custom scripts. Awayto makes it fast to deploy low-cost web applications and then have a skilled developer come in and build up your application.

Thank you for your time.

Java, C#, Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, PHP, Ruby, Python, HITRUST, FERPA

Inquiries: [email protected]

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: For Contract or Consulting Only

Technologies: Java, C#, Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, React, Redux, Material UI, NodeJS, Webpack, Postgres, Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, HITRUST, FERPA

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-mccormick-76224429/

Email: [email protected]

If you are looking for a consulting- or contract-based resource, I am interested and open to take on projects of many varieties. Over the last 10 years, my professional experience has touched on Education, Professional Consulting, IT Management, E-Commerce, and I hold my MA in English teaching. I have led multiple successful development teams within the companies I have worked at, on projects of large complexity, some with millions of users and in revenue.

As a side project, I created https://awayto.dev, a free open source web application generation platform. It uses React, Redux, Material UI, NodeJS, Typescript, Webpack, Postgres, AWS Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, as well as my own custom scripts. Awayto makes it fast to deploy low-cost web applications and then have a skilled developer come in and build up your application.

Thank you for your time.