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

How Hathora decided to adopt, evaluate, and successfully incorporate bare metal servers into our product.

Learn about server cost optimization by leveraging multiple matches per server

It’s already difficult to build a compelling multiplayer game, now imagine trying to stick the landing for your first ever live, in-person public showcase where players are constantly playing your game that is still absolutely a work-in-progress. With just weeks to go until DreamHack Atlanta, the Wildcard team had

Launch day for a hit online multiplayer game doesn’t have an equivalent in any other industry. The genre's social nature increases the potential to go viral, so gamers around the world will all want to play at the same time. This puts significant strain on backend infrastructure,

The web has rapidly evolved from its origins of websites serving static HTML content, to today's highly dynamic web applications. Whether it's games, chat, or productivity tools, users expect the apps to be up-to-date and enable real-time interactions with others. WebSockets, which enables real-time communication from