zorkian

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by zorkian 7mo ago
(( This is a repost of what I shared on Reddit here https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/1r05vkj/comment... but I think the context will be helpful for this group, too. This article title is very
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by zorkian 3y ago
Yeeeep. I usually end up creating isolated grids with circuit networks and banks of capacitors to make it so the power production (and fuel production to feed it) can never shut down... Dyson Sphere Program (an amazing factory builder game,
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by zorkian 4y ago
(I work at Discord in infrastructure.) We use data services to do "data related things" that make sense to do at a central proxy layer. This may include caching/coalescing/other logic but it doesn't always, it reall
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by zorkian 4y ago
Our messaging stack is not currently multi-regional, unfortunately. This is in the works, though, but it's a fairly significant architectural evolution from where we are today. Data storage is going to be multi-regional soon, but that&
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by zorkian 4y ago
(I work at Discord.) It's not even the most interesting metric about our systems anyway. If we're really going to look at the tech, the inflation of those metrics to deliver the service is where the work generally is in the system
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by zorkian 4y ago
(I work at Discord and manage our Infrastructure, Security, and Safety engineering organizations.) We currently don't intentionally block or disable third party clients or action the accounts of people who use them. We do monitor the t
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by zorkian 5y ago
Core Wars was great! I spent a good amount of time in the late 90s writing little bots for a similar game, AT-Robots, where you write an assembly type language to program a little laser-shooting robot that could drive around, scan for enemi
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by zorkian 5y ago
I didn't make the original decision but if I were starting something and I had no idea whether or not it'd be successful, I'd do whatever was the absolute fastest way to get to MVP. That'd probably be a cloud database, h
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by zorkian 5y ago
Define 'supports.' It's still against the TOS -- my point is only that we don't specifically look for third party client users and we have no specific plans to do so.
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by zorkian 5y ago
Can confirm. We (Discord) moved off of MongoDB for various reasons and are quite happy about that decision but managing Cassandra/Scylla clusters is not exactly a walk in the park either.
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by zorkian 5y ago
I run the infrastructure department at Discord which includes our anti-spam engineering team -- Just want to +1 what you're saying and confirm that we are never trying to ban third party clients (that aren't self-bots). Honestly,
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by zorkian 6y ago
You're definitely right -- this is an issue. I could very well believe that we tripped some FB spam measures. We have a very manual anti-spam process right now that relies on humans to detect it and action it. We have a couple of very