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by faize 2 hours ago
I'm not fully up to scratch with the latest AWS tactics, but to me, this seems like another way to get people to move to their platform and then charge for bandwidth at a later date, ultimately trapping their consumers.

Also, this whole post just felt like a brag, i'm not surprised it barely got any upvotes

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Agreed on the bragging.

Also I‘m not convinced about the whole cost issue. A nice server from a bare metal provider like OVH will be so much cheaper than the AWS equivalent, you can pay for a ton of traffic.

> Also, this whole post just felt like a brag, i'm not surprised it barely got any upvotes

Yeah, opening with:

> I'm a world expert in game netcode

Felt like an odd way to start the article.

Maybe OP is job farming?

He is one of the well known netcode guy.

But from the few interactions I had with him I would say he is quite abrasive, stubborn and probably somewhat on the spectrum.

But there is a special kind of unpleasantness in writing/debugging netcode for large projects, I don't think you can be agreeable and still you your job correctly.

If anything, in immature engineering organizations, preserving netcode invariants to successfully deliver a multiplayer project might benefit from a little of that disposition.