Inverting the Backend: Why We Built our MMORPG Inside a Database (Tyler Cloutier)

Speaker:

Tyler Cloutier

System:

SpacetimeDB

Video:

YouTube

This talk explores what happens when you move all the infrastructure and logic of a fully featured, real-time backend application into the database. Using SpacetimeDB and BitCraft as a case study, the talk argues that the ideas behind stored procedures deserve a modern revival as a first class database feature: bringing deployment, transactions, relational data, and general-purpose procedural logic into... Read More