Beautiful Architecture: Chapter 3

Chapter 3 of Beautiful Architecture presents the designing of project Darkstar, a framework for MMO games and virtual worlds.

I enjoyed seeing how the decisions were made in identifying problems and the best solution for the framework. I can relate to their issues of developing frameworks for other people to use transparently. They still had to educate developers on how to create objects that do not defeat the parallelism available. I developed a framework at work for other people to use, along with a complete user guide on best practices for keeping modules self contained, etc. Still, other developers would break rules and cause issues, showing the need for better education or validation =) It's fun to see other people start to use stuff you've created