Yan Cui (theburningmonk)
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Based in London, Yan works as a server side developer for iwi, a software house focused on producing high quality social games that run on platforms such as Facebook and Hi5. Yan’s primary focus is of building highly distributed and scalable server-side solutions to support the rapid growth of iwi’s games - JackpotJoy Slots is now serving over 350k users each day handling over 100m requests and growing! Yan mainly specializes in .Net technologies such as C# and WCF, but he also holds strong interests in other areas such as AOP, functional programming and cloud computing.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
In this session, Yan will share some of his experiences of building a successful MMORPG for a social audience and insights into some of the technical challenges that his team has had to overcome along the way.
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on 7/6/2025 4:18 PM
AppSync doesn’t allow unauthenticated API calls.
To allow users to call your API without first authenticating themselves, you must mimic the behaviour using one of the available authorization methods.
In this post, let’s look at three ways to implement un[...]
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on 5/21/2025 10:00 AM
Versioning an API built with API Gateway and Lambda isn’t as straightforward as it sounds.
You need to support multiple live versions without piling up technical debt or duplicating infrastructure.
In this post, we look at practical strategies for managin[...]
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on 5/15/2025 7:12 AM
When we talk about event-driven architectures, we often focus on things like loose coupling, scalability and DDD. But under the hood, the way consumers receive events matters just as much. And it usually comes down to one of two models: push vs poll.
Your[...]
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on 4/29/2025 8:01 AM
Serverful (i.e. paying for uptime) services like RDS makes working with ephemeral environments more difficult and poses a cost concern.
In this artcile, let's see how Neon's Serverless Postgres database solves this problem and how we can clone an existing[...]
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on 4/27/2025 5:34 PM
What if you don't have to worry about event versioning or catching breaking changes anymore?
What if event consumers are no longer coupled to the schema of the event and instead, subscribe to their semantics?
I discovered an exciting new way to manage eve[...]
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