Despite some hurdles and subsequent AWS outage which also took out the likes of Pinterest and Netflix, I’m proud to announce that we have released two new slot this week – Fuzz Balls on JackpotJoy Slots and Amazing Adventures on Lucky Gem Casino, both running on our F# slots engine Fuzz Balls   Fuzz Balls [...]

Just a quick note to mention that I’ll be speaking to the F#unctional Londoners on Thursday, 28th Jun about using .Net in the social gaming space which is usually dominated by PHP. In this session I’ll share some insight into how we at GameSys uses a polyglot stack evolving around .Net to build our games [...]

I came across this SO question the other day, and I really liked Daniel’s answer as it illustrates the beauty and elegance of F# and functional programming in general! Personally I love the combinators approach, and for anyone else who’s interested to see what else you can do with combinators, check out the beautifully crafted [...]

After watching Gael’s recent SkillsMatter talk on multithreading I’ve put together some notes from a very educational talk:   Hardware Cache Hierarchy Four levels of cache L1 (per core) – typically used for instructions L2 (per core) L3 (per die) DRAM (all processors) Data can be cached in multiple caches, and synchronization happens through an [...]

I have heard a few people argue that when it comes to performance critical code you should prefer arrays over other collections (such as F#’s lists) as it benefits from sequential reads (which is faster than seeks) and offers better memory locality. To test that theory somewhat, I wanted to see if there is any [...]