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FantaMensch - 21. Jun, 09:40
"After submitting to biometric hand scans in the lobby and passing through a sensor-laden multidoor man trap, Manos and I entered a bright, white room filled with librarylike rows of hulking, black racks of servers — the dedicated hardware that drives the Internet."
"(…)consider Facebook. Facebook’s numbers are staggering. More than 200 million users have uploaded more than 15 billion photos, making Facebook the world’s largest photo-sharing service."Interessanter NY Times Artikel von Tom Vanderbilt über die riesigen Data-Center, die nicht nur Unmengen von Daten, sondern folglich auch Unmengen an Hardware beinhalten um Internet-Dienste zu gewährleisten. Eine Serverfarm davon steht in Tukwila, in obigem Fall unter anderem der Xbox live Host von Microsoft.
"Latency concerns are not limited to Wall Street; it is estimated that a 100-millisecond delay reduces Amazon’s sales by 1 percent."
Electronic Arts’ chief operating officer John Pleasants says the publisher is evolving from a software company to a live services company.Wow. EA scheint als erster erkannt zu haben, dass man auch an einem Spiel dranbleiben muss, nachdem man es herausgegeben hat. Was für eine Erkenntnis…
“If you believe all games will eventually be services - as I do - then the idea of game teams that make a game, ship it, and then do something else goes away. They will now ship and day one begins when the customer gives feedback to the live service,” Pleasants told VentureBeat.