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Jaden_Simon

The repo here is mostly a toy.

It's not about Zig or AWS Lambda in particular, it's about being able to connect everything together. The goal is making those connections easier to create/test/maintain via my tool.

Show HN: A real-time browser game built for 100k people

https://nameboard.live/

I built this over the last 6 months from the ground up. Backend is TypeScript with WebSockets (uWebSockets.js). Frontend is plain JS and uses a mix of WebGL + the DOM.RTT is <100ms for US west coast, and around 150-200ms for east coast. The world sim is on a single authoritative server with basic 2D physics. Clients talk to a fleet of horizontally scalable replicas. Replicas are dumb...

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Show HN: Synapse – TypeScript Toolchain for Cloud Apps

https://github.com/Cohesible/synapse

Hey all,I've been working on a developer tool based on my experiences with working on cloud applications. What I've created is basically Node.js + TypeScript + Terraform all combined into a single tool, Synapse. I like to think of Synapse as a "compiler for distributed systems", though it can also be used as a build tool for any JavaScript/TypeScript app. In fact, Synapse is built with...

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