We put a distributed database in the browser and made a game of it
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Re: We put a distributed database in the browser and made a game of it
#2Direct link to the game: https://sim.tigerbeetle.com/.
While TigerBeetle is open-source, the game isn't yet. But that may change. :)
Re: We put a distributed database in the browser and made a game of it
#3I thought tigerbeetle distributes the db on web clients? I skimmed through the docs and cannot find how to design a web app with tigerbeetle like the game https://sim.tigerbeetle.com/
Re: We put a distributed database in the browser and made a game of it
#4Is this something similar to couch/pouchdb?
Re: We put a distributed database in the browser and made a game of it
#5I thought tigerbeetle distributes the db on web clients? I skimmed through the docs and cannot find how to design a web app with tigerbeetle like the game https://sim.tigerbeetle.com/
Hey! I'm not completely sure I follow the question. But the game is built a little differently from how you'd typically run TigerBeetle in production. In production you'd run a cluster of replicas (see https://docs.tigerbeetle.com/deploy/hardware#cluster-of-repl...) and then you'd have your application connect to the cluster using one of our client libraries.
The game is more a reflection of how we do simulation testing (as the post mentioned). You can find the code for that here: https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle/blob/main/src/s....
Re: We put a distributed database in the browser and made a game of it
#6Is this something similar to couch/pouchdb?
TigerBeetle is more domain-specific, i.e. focused on financial transactions and high-performance, high-availability. There are just two entity types in the database: accounts and transfers between accounts. More details here https://docs.tigerbeetle.com/design/data-modeling if you're interested!
Re: We put a distributed database in the browser and made a game of it
#7This is insanely cool!
Re: We put a distributed database in the browser and made a game of it
#8It's very confusing that y'all are calling this a "game". There's nothing to play, it's just a simulation to watch.
Re: We put a distributed database in the browser and made a game of it
#9It's very confusing that y'all are calling this a "game". There's nothing to play, it's just a simulation to watch.
There are tools in the upper right corner. You can pick one and use it on a beetle. ;) This introduces various faults in the simulation that the database has to recover from.
Minor spoiler: there's another tiny game hidden at the end of the third level.
Re: We put a distributed database in the browser and made a game of it
#10This is a sweet idea and a nice, game-esque implementation.
It could definitely use some onboarding.
There's nothing to give the "player" a hint as to what they should do. What is my goal? Am I trying to defeat the communication of the nodes, or help them? If it's the former, why did I seem to win the first level after doing nothing? I started by trying to mash some keys. Eventually I saw that there were tools in the upper-right, but it wasn't clear what to do with them. It's a bit frustrating that they disappear after you grab them if your click is too far off the target. After successfully applying one of them to one of the targets, it's not clear what one should do next. Was it a good move? Who knows, because there's no feedback.