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Links with architectures

• http://www.dossier-andreas.net/software_architecture/index.html
• http://centurion2.com/SEHomework/Chapter11/SoftwareArchitecture.php
• http://alandix.com/academic/teaching/MScHCI/ui-arch/sld005.htm
• http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/year/2009/course/DAT135_Software_Architecture/LectureNotes.html
• http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~garlan/courses/Architectures-S03.html
• http://se.inf.ethz.ch/courses/2011a_spring/soft_arch/lectures/
• http://cs.gmu.edu/~jpsousa/classes/727/

Architectures

• Presentation Abstraction Control (similar to MVC)
• Seeheim model and Arch/slinky (similar to MVC, http://alandix.com/academic/teaching/MScHCI/ui-arch/sld005.htm)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staged_event-driven_architecture
• pipe and filter: use cubelets as an example?

communication

• lockstep vs asynchronous vs real time
• request-response vs one-way (R-R is reliable, one-way is good for logging analytics online)
• pubsub/Event manager, bonus: bandwidth?
• REST, bonus: scale logic tier?
• RPC
• bucket/throttling, bonus: bandwidth

data

• CRUD (+ mapping with REST?)
• ACID vs BASE, CAP
• connection broker, bonus: mutliplexing
• ETL, wrappers for different data sources, bonus: demultiplexing
• partitioning/sharding
• master-slave, log-shipping
• caching
• pipeline
• pass commands (good for replays and interpolation?) vs pass data
• thin client (easy to fetch user generated content) vs fat client

homeworks

• I provide a server API, you write a client
• add a simple feature to the game (complete vertical slice)
• make a wrapper

games

bomberman, words with friends, jigsaw, chat, pacman, tag, dots, pummel the chimp, space race, snake