minimap_renderer VS system-design-primer

The name `` is intentional here. Decompilers (or at least uncompyle) relies on the function name to figure out what composition syntax the function is for (or a lambda, or generator). The python compiler emits ``, ``, ``, ``, and `` depending on the type of function. The obfuscator renamed this function of course and causes the decompiler choke on a whole file if this appears at a module level.

The game developers also reached out to me and others after seeing this post appear on the /r/WorldofWarships subreddit. They want to understand why we would need to introspect these files for mod creation or data mining.

I already explained some of this in the post, but at a mod level the API docs are _really_ bad and actually no longer existent since the developers migrated away from a standard forum to Discord for all comms and killed the forum. For ModAPIv2 which is heavily restricted to pre-approved mod developers there are no docs at all!

Additionally, they rely on a community-created tool for rendering replays to an MP4 for their tournament match recaps: https://github.com/WoWs-Builder-Team/minimap_renderer. The replay format is entirely undocumented and relies on data mined from this tool and other resources for parsing some data structures.

There are a _ton_ of community-developed resources that have only been made possible through reverse engineering of some shape that are critical for understanding the game.

The first two points are the big motivator for development of this utility. Applications like minimap_renderer depend on game assets and reading these assets isn't easily automated with today's tools.

✅ donnemartin/system-design-primer: https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer

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I've been giving interviews for past couple of months and this github repo has helped me so much for system design perspective and I can see myself excelling at interviews. - https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer

You'll be on opiod's probably the first 1-2 days, so sleeping should be fine. Everything will be allright, don't worry too much. Just use the time now to prepare for the time after, make sure you go through post-surgery-essentials thread. Once you are out of the OR you won't have the energy to think about those details, so make sure you take that prep serious.

Tooling isn’t architecture. Figure out what you need to handle both personas and volume/throughput and then lay out the capabilities you’ll need. As you lay out points of ingress, egress, consumption you can start to lay out sequences(think in persona and sequence diagrams to express interactions between services). Lastly, evaluate tools that offer some of these capabilities and weigh the trade-offs (there are always trade-offs: https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer).

[1] https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer [2] https://www.teamblind.com/post/My-Approach-to-System-Design-V4SJARdx