Playing Around: Games and scale

In which we point our readers off to a Sun Labs technical note, talking in detail about how the multi-node Data Store in Project Darkstar is trying to gain low latency in spite of being a distributed store.[Read More]

We pushed the Darkstar roadmap out on the site last week. This leads to no little concern among the engineering team, in that we are now predicting what we are going to do in the future. But this concern was offset by our desire to let the wider Darkstar community know what we are planning on doing, and the hope that we can get some feedback from that community on whether or not our plans are the right thing for them.

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