From Zero to Hero: Launch Your Own Game in 45 Minutes
summary
Builds a working idle game called Feed the Gopher in Go, deployable to AWS App Runner, using Momento cache and Momento Topics for state and pub/sub. Implements a sorted‑set leaderboard, websocket chat backed by a topic pub/sub, manual feed endpoint with a 60‑requests/60s token‑bucket rate limit, and minute‑interval auto‑feeders run by a leased background task so containers stay stateless. Live demo runs and the code is published for immediate deploy and iteration.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:50Why this talk
- 3:16What are we building
- 4:10Client overview
- 4:45Architecture
- 5:59Layout
- 6:46Leaderboard
- 7:30Manual Feed API
- 8:20Leaderboard API
- 9:18Chat API
- 9:45Send Message
- 11:01Chat Connect
- 12:06JavaScript
- 12:42Basic Game
- 13:08Rate Limiter
- 14:38Rate Limiter Demo
- 16:33Auto Feeders
- 17:56Infrastructure
- 19:12Demo
- 22:33Recap
- 26:06Outro
