Re:Factorio and Software Engineering
by rwhaling on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:55PM
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Coming to Factorio from a Scala/streaming/data background, I got the connection pretty immediately - so much of Factorio is about designing correctly for backpressure, such that your factory works stably at different levels of capacity and resource consumption. That said, I still never really got the knack of blueprints and large-scale planning, so I've got a long way to go still.
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I find it interesting that you mention easily grokking backpressure in Factorio yet have more difficulty with blueprints. In my experience, people "get" blueprints much earlier on than even the idea of backpressure.
Given you say you come from a data streaming background, I (idly) wonder how much your Factorio "skills" could benefit from you picking up a book on design patterns in object-oriented approaches.