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		Kiro on Sept 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MMO Architecture: Source of truth, Dataflows, I/O ... > the I/O bottleneck in the database I thought most MMOs kept everything in memory and only offloaded to the database periodically. I clearly remember rollbacks to fix times (XX:00) when things went down. Edit: Sorry, should have read the whole article before commenting.

izend on Sept 29, 2023 [–]

Exactly, there is no way the state can be persisted on absolutely every change. It has to be periodically dumped to the database.

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