Game Developers Conference 2022
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 by Richard Harris
The 2022 Game Developers Conference (GDC), the world’s longest-running event for professionals dedicated to the art and science of making games, begins its 36th edition today, in person at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. The week-long conference, which also includes a virtual component, will feature more than 200 exhibitors, over 1,000 speakers, an...
SRE hiring trends
Thursday, January 6, 2022 by Richard Harris
Ashley Stirrup, COO at Shoreline.io shares his 2022 predictions about the death of the Runbook, the rising cost of outages and SRE hiring trends.
Prediction #1: The death of the Runbook
In the coming year, we will see runbooks fuse out. Our team has been surprised in the last few months with how infrequently people have had true Runbooks. Runbooks are a great plac...
Videogame platform catches up to YouTube Gaming
Monday, January 3, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Facebook Gaming had a dominant Q3 in 2021 which saw the video-game streaming segment of the social media giants accomplish several milestones. According to data presented by Safe Betting Sites, Facebook Gaming overtook Youtube Gaming in hours watched for the first time after recording an estimated 1.3B hours watched in Q3 2021.
Videogame platform catches up to Twitch...
Mobile game spending is dominated by women says Liftoff
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Liftoff released a data report exploring the booming world of mobile gaming. Since last year, Liftoff has detected a golden age of mobile game marketing with acquisition costs at all stages of the funnel decreasing and post-install conversion rates increasing. And as multi-platform gaming sensations like Fortnite bring high-quality play experiences to smartphones, more ...
The new location based marketing strategy
Saturday, December 30, 2017 by Adrian Velthuis
Location is everything. The growing hype around location-based marketing has marketers leveraging real-time data to target consumers on-the-go. The location intelligence we have on people drives a large amount of consumer insight that can be used to affect decision-making processes. It is used to target the mobile customer, particularly if you know they are near a brick...
NetFish app guides you to catch more fish
Thursday, June 22, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Many people spend more time planning a fishing trip than actually fishing. All that is changed with the launch of ReelSonars new free mobile app - NetFish. Whether you're new to fishing or a seasoned angler, NetFish will guide you on when, where, and what fish to catch. And as weather and water temperatures continually change, the app predicts where and when fish are bi...
Twitter's Crashlytics Now Catches out of Memory Crashes for iOS Apps
Thursday, August 18, 2016 by Richard Harris
Twitter has announced a brand new feature in Fabric's Crashlytics kit — out of memory crash reporting on iOS (OOM). Crashlytics is already the most powerful crash reporting solution available. But app crashes aren't always caused by bugs in the code. Crashes can also be caused by the user's device being out of memory, forcing the app to shut down. This is a problem...
Kernel Patching 101: How to Make Repairs Without System Downtime
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 by Vojtech Pavlik
Today, we increasingly rely on computers to control critical activities like stock trading, flight control or nuclear power plant management. These services must not fail or have outages, they must be “always on.” Redundant systems composed of components of independent origin are being used to prevent systemic errors that cause larger outages while hot-swappable compone...
Day One at GDC, Sleep Late and Prosper
Monday, March 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Very excited about my first time to attend the Game Developers Conference. I flew into San Francisco Sunday afternoon so that I would be able to get up bright and early to hit the ground running for GDC the next morning, even signing in early late Sunday afternoon. Had a light dinner and was in bed early, all access press pass clutched in my hand – ready to hit the grou...
Is the smartwatch the next big thing for app developers
Sunday, March 24, 2013 by Richard Harris
A watch that just keeps time seems like something from the wild west, after all if you are going to wear a piece of tech you might as well make the most of it right? That is the stance LG, Motorola, Sony, Apple, Google, and others are taking anyway - and it might just pay off with some exciting preliminary prototypes being leaked around the web.So what exactly is a...
