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We're excited to announce that Hathora has been accepted into the NVIDIA Inception program. Why a Gaming Infrastructure Company Will Power AI Workloads Gaming doesn't tolerate excuses. Real-time performance isn't a nice-to-have feature you can optimize later—it's existential. If your multiplayer
The cloud revolution promised to democratize computing. Instead, it created new gatekeepers charging premium prices for commodity resources. It's time to break free. Powering Web Applications Looked Different Across the Decades In the 90s, you bought retail hardware and cobbled together enough on-premises machines to keep your applications
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The gaming industry has faced a tough year, and the road ahead remains uncertain. At DICE this year, the sentiment shifted from "survive to ‘25" to simply "survive ‘25." Many industry executives are hyper-focused on reducing costs—downsizing teams, cutting expansion plans, and scrutinizing operational expenses.
Technical Blog
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
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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
Technical Blog
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
Technical Blog
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
Technical Blog
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
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