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Why? Large language model deployment is becoming a necessity for modern applications, with inference optimization playing a central role in shaping both user experience and cost. Latency spans GPU efficiency, network routing, and autoscaling, making it a complex but rewarding area to improve. At Hathora, we’re drawing on lessons
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Unreal Build Accelerator (UBA) is one of the most powerful ways to speed up Unreal Engine development, especially for large C++ or shader-heavy projects. By distributing compilation jobs across a farm of machines, developers can cut build times dramatically. We’ve seen teams reduce builds by up to 90% using
Technical Blog
Background If you were a company that needed compute resources in the 1990’s and early 2000’s, the prevalent model was purchasing and maintaining your own servers, either in your own datacenters or through colocation services. AWS rapidly transformed the landscape with the launch of EC2 in 2006, allowing
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When it comes to scalable backend architecture, the load balancer has long reigned supreme. The best practices always say your backend services should be stateless so that you can scale up multiple replicas and stick them behind a load balancer, achieving horizontal scalability and high availability. For 99% of the
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For many people, data center compute is synonymous with cloud hyperscalers like AWS, GCP, and Azure. This has replaced the legacy on-prem model, which involved buying and racking your own hardware. But what many don’t realize is that there’s something in between, called bare metal. As the name
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Learn how Geode helped 1047 Games build a custom CMS & choose Hathora for scalable servers, balancing ROI & core strengths to prep for Splitgate 2's success.
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An intro into loading persistent game state with ephemeral game servers. Learn about the different options and how to integrate them with Hathora.
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We’re trying something a little different with our blog in this post. Given the rapid proliferation of backend tools and middleware in the gaming industry, we want to spotlight tools and teams working in the multiplayer games space. If you like this one, please let us know so we’
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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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How Hathora decided to adopt, evaluate, and successfully incorporate bare metal servers into our product.
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Learn about server cost optimization by leveraging multiple matches per server
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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
Elastic-metal infra, globally deployed, ready for scale.
