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MDA: A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research

An examination of the MDA framework for game design, which focuses on mechanics, dynamics, and aesthetics to understand and improve gameplay experiences.

users.cs.northwestern.edu

Superfluid

link3.to

Crypto

In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (Raft) by Diego Ongaro and John Ousterhout

raft.github.io

System Design

Vendor Lock-in : This is the kind that IT folks generally mean when they mention "lock-in". It describes the difficulty of switching from one vendor to a competitor. For example, if migrating from Siebel CRM to SalesForce CRM or from an IBM DB2 database to an Oracle one will cost you an arm and a leg, you are "locked in". This type of lock-in is

Gregor Hohpe • Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in

MicroFrontends - extending the microservice idea to frontend development

micro-frontends.org

Frontend Engineering

Stacksync - CRM Integration without the dev time

stacksync.cloud

Legal lock-in : You may be locked into a specific solution for legal reasons, such as compliance. For example, you might not be able to migrate your data to another cloud provider's data center if it's located outside your country. Your software provider's license may also not allow you to move your systems to the cloud even though they'd run

Gregor Hohpe • Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in

Therefore, we have joined forces with a number of other companies to create the OpenTF manifesto. The goal of the manifesto is to ensure Terraform remains truly open source — always.

To this end, the manifesto lays out the following two-step plan:

Ask HashiCorp to switch Terraform back to open source. The manifesto is a public request—a petition

Yevgeniy Brikman • The future of Terraform must be open

5 top gaming investors explain how the pandemic is reshaping MMOs and social games

Eric Cohen-Peckham techcrunch.com

Video Games