Guests:

• Ivan Corbett, Producer II
• Benoit Beausjour, Chief Technology Officer
• Jordan Wood, Network Programmer III

TL;DW:

• Server meshing is tested with players because they break stuff.
• High player limits (500+) help figure out bottlenecks.
• Replication Message Queue is one of the results of those high capacity tests.
• RMQ fixed initial problems but revealed a bunch of new ones with high latency and packet losses.
• Lack of paralliziation was another problem not found until RMQ made it in.
• Entity synchronization (binding) also had to be optimized (example provided talks about 3 million entities per shard after a week of running a server).
• Current hope is to improve the network performance 10x or more and find the next set of bottlenecks.