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Siddharth Dhulipalla

Siddharth Dhulipalla

Founder & CEO, Hathora.dev

So, how much slower are containers?

So, how much slower are containers?

Containers have become the gold standard of packaging, distributing, and running applications. The world of gaming, however, has been slow to adopt containers because performance (both CPU and network) is so important to providing a good player experience. Understandably so, since game servers must complete intense computations within narrow time

Hathora raises $7.6m to power game server hosting

Hathora raises $7.6m to power game server hosting

Gaming has taken the world by storm as it has emerged as the preferred form of entertainment for billions across the globe. The gaming industry is expected to be worth $321B by 2026, with the majority of gaming hours attributed to online multiplayer as they fulfill that fundamental social need

Cross-region network communication

Cloud Latency Shootout

All the cloud providers advertise the performance of their network as a selling point, but there isn’t much publicly available data that meaningfully measures cross-regional latency. So, we decided to write our own benchmarking harness to compare round trip latencies across several providers. We were surprised to find that

Modern Cloud for Multiplayer Games

Modern Cloud for Multiplayer Games

Over the years, much has been written on the internet about developing multiplayer games. However, there is surprisingly little information available when it comes to deploying and managing production game infrastructure. Given the nature of multiplayer games, traditional backend infrastructure techniques often don't apply – multiplayer games are inherently

Hathora: Multiplayer Made Easy

Hathora: Multiplayer Made Easy

More multiplayer games are being developed than ever before, but building & launching a successful online multiplayer game remains one of the most notoriously difficult endeavors in the software world. The biggest challenges developers face are (1) choosing and correctly implementing the technologies to enable multiplayer, and (2) ending up