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Grabbing the Rabbit by the Horns
RabbitMQ is a very powerful tool, especially when deployed in a cluster. Among RabbitMQ’s more useful features is rabbitmqctl, the command line tool which can be used to query a node and list its...
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The Strophe.js Echobot
I’m toying around with in-browser XMPP in order to publish information to our users in real time. To start, I wanted to get the strophe.js echobot demo working. I found the posted steps a bit...
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Random Number Entropy, Xen, and You
Here at Agora Games, we are strong proponents of cloud computing for a number of reasons. The ability to scale outward quickly in a time of need continuously aids our processes, encouraging rapid...
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Ensuring balanced reads with PyMongo
Over the past year we’ve been evaluating and migrating many of our game services over to mongoDB. Its feature set gives us complete freedom to iterate with developers during game production, its...
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Cucumber and Behavior Driven Infrastructure Validation
Did you ever think to use Cucumber to write scenarios to validate your infrastructure? Here’s a short guide to help you get started. I’m going to keep this intentionally short because I don’t want to...
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Introducing Haigha
We’re pleased to announce the official release of haigha, our Python AMQP client library. Haigha is the culmination of over 2 years of development. We’ve used RabbitMQ since we launched our game...
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Of Penguins, Rabbits and Buses
Here at Agora we make use of dedicated hardware and virtual machines running on our providers’ respective clouds. In recent months, we’ve moved our RabbitMQ hosts onto hardware because we found that we...
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Chef Explosion
Here at MLG, we use a product from Opscode called Chef to manage our server environments. Chef allows us to reliably manage our infrastructure by providing us with the ability to write code that...
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Hydra Mobile – Realtime Communication
Hydra Mobile is the newest product from Agora Games and each week or so we’ll be releasing detailed information about features, an update from the beta, and anything else that you folks might want to...
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Hydra Mobile – Leaderboards, Achievements, Match-Making, Friends & more
INTRODUCING HYDRA MOBILE Player Stats, Achievements, Push Notifications, Leaderboards & Match-Making for your Unity3d Android & iOS Game! Here at Agora Games, we’ve been working on an online...
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