By popular demand (thanks, both of you ;) I share some thoughts from a software engineering perspective about the Replication Layer and Server Meshing section of the StarEngine talk from Star Citizen's CitizenCon 2953 this October 2023. 2023 CitizenCon presentation on replication layer & server meshing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKWa4WoTkV4 2021 CitizenCon presentation on persistent entity streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSzUWl4r2rU Jake Beal paper on "What the Assassin’s Guild Taught Me About Distributed Computing" from MIT: https://jakebeal.github.io/Publications/MIT-CSAIL-TR-2006-038.pdf Overwatch Developer Update | Let's Talk Netcode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTH2ZPgYujQ Zachery Johnson talks about Blizzard's Diablo II: Resurrected database architecture on the Critical Point War Stories podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UupPvHocUQg My main channel: @critical-point My personal site/contact info: https://free-dissociation.com/contact