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Barry
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Was the lead engineer at NeoPets (10/2000 - 11/2002) Focused on scaling (30m+ users), security (hackers), but also built guilds & games After NP, had some success/exits as founder/cto (+ many lessons), 30+ 😇 investments Love builders, helpers, and of course, Farcaster Feel like a trip back to Neopia? 🙃 AMA
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🌹 zach harris 🥀
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Tech: What stack you were building on? Who were the competition? Scale: What were some of the limitations of the infrastructure? Product: How did you get a sense of what users wanted or needed? I was running a super popular hotline server at the time (1999 - 2002)
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Barry
@baz.eth
php3 (php4 was a huge ordeal but eventually got to it) mysql for most non-critical data Oracle databases for critical data (accounts, etc.) We were constantly running up against max connections on the b, so we ended up having to build our own connection pooling libraries in C to bring down the load
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Barry
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Infrastructure-wise, was way before AWS as you know. We had a data center downtown LA (Equinix iirc), with hundreds of servers at any given point Product: most of the creative direction came from the founders, but we had autonomy to try our own things. We owned whatever we put out :) Also very open channels to players
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🌹 zach harris 🥀
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Is this before the times of LAMP?
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