Category: Interactive Media
Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT and Language Models, Cloud Technologies, DevOps, Rich Media Systems, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System ArchitectureHow to (not) get rich using TikTok and AWS
In our Software Development for Cloud Computing course, we were tasked with building something, anything, using the cloud. After various discarded ideas, our team decided to create a platform aimed at automatically generating short-form videos. In this blog post, we will go over our development journey, the architectural decisions we made, the technologies we chose…
Optimierung einer VueJS-Webseite: Ladezeitenreduktion
Performance einer Webseite ist wichtig für Nutzer und Suchmaschinen, aber im Entwicklungsprozess nicht immer ersichtlich. Diese Hausarbeit untersucht Möglichkeiten zur automatischen Optimierung der Webperformance während der Entwicklung mit VueJS.
Guess What? We Built a Web Game with Firebase
What is more or less? “More or Less” is a guessing game where you guess which item has a higher value for a specific attribute. For example, in the “Commit Clash: Which GitHub repo has more commits?” mode, you see one GitHub repository’s commit count and another repository. You have to decide if the repository…
Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Databases, System Architecture, System Designs, Teaching and Learning, Web PerformanceCost-Efficient Server Structure: Merging Static and Dynamic API
While developing our guessing game, “More or Less”, we found a method to significantly reduce traffic on our serverless API, leading to cost savings and an improved content creation experience. The Problem In our game, players can contribute their own game modes, using the web editor. Additionally, we develop game modes ourselves to guarantee high-quality…
Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Databases, Scalable Systems, System Architecture, System Designs, Teaching and Learning, Web PerformanceOptimizing List Views: Structuring Data Efficiently in Firestore
While developing our guessing game “More or Less”, we encountered a common challenge many developers face: determining the structure of our data model. Challenge 1: List vs. Detailed View Many websites show an excerpt of their content in a list view. In our “More or Less” game, for example, we see a series of game…
Evaluating Cloud Gaming Services: Uncovering Key Quality Factors with Engaging Examples
Introduction Cloud gaming services have gained significant traction in recent years. They allow users to play high-quality games without needing powerful hardware. This technology revolutionizes the gaming industry by enabling gamers to stream games on-demand, regardless of their device’s capabilities. One key benefit of cloud gaming is that it eliminates the need for downloading and…
How Riot Games created their own internet
Riot Games is the developer of a number of big on- and offline games, most notably ‘League of Legends’. League of Legends is a real-time multiplayer online battle arena game, where two teams consisting of five players each fight one another. As the game is a fast past real-time game, split-second decisions can be the…
How classical MMO-RPGs work, starring Final Fantasy XIV
Einleitung MMO-RPGs oder Massiv-Multi-Player-Role-Playing-Games standen schon lange vor Facebook, Twitter und Co. vor der Herausforderung ein System für möglicherweise Millionen von Usern zeitgleich zu designen, dass ein Concurrent Gameplay und eine Concurrent Gameworld ermöglicht. Doch wie konnten Spiele wie World of Warcraft, Everquest und Guild Wars diese Aufgabe ohne die Hilfe neuartiger Cloud- und Edge-Computing-Möglichkeiten…
CDNs und die DSGVO
In Zeiten von weltweit verteilten großen Systemen im Internet und der überwiegend mobilen Bedienung von Webseiten ist die schnelle Datenübertragung an alle Orte auf der Welt ein entscheidendes Thema. Kein Deutscher Urlauber in Amerika möchte eine Ewigkeit auf die heißgeliebte online-Ausgabe der Bild-Zeitung länger als ein paar Sekunden warten. Und auch der durchschnittliche Facebook-Nutzer in…