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Simulation Infrastructure From São Paulo to Seoul, how we keep thousands of concurrent micro-worlds in sync on a single graph.
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Building a 1,200-Node World Graph for Planet-Scale Simulation

How we engineered a sharded, latency-aware world graph that keeps millions of entities in sync across regions like Frankfurt, Mumbai, and Oregon — without dropping a single frame.

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Manish Mondal
Jan 24, 2026 • 14 min read
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AI Infrastructure

Latency-Aware Inference at the Edge

How we route player sessions between Singapore, Virginia, and Frankfurt while keeping inference below 8ms — even during global peak hours.

Kumar Saurabh Dec 18, 2025 • 9 min
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Designing Neon UX for AI-First Worlds

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Koustav Mandal Nov 30, 2025 • 7 min
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AI Research

Autonomous NPC Economies Across Time Zones

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Manish Mondal Nov 12, 2025 • 11 min
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Engineering

Using GNNs to Route Live Worlds

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Kumar Saurabh Oct 27, 2025 • 10 min
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Engineering

Rust Microservices for Deterministic Playout

Why we rewrote our core simulation services in Rust and how it changed our reliability story in regions with unstable networks.

Koustav Mandal Oct 10, 2025 • 13 min
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Platform

Observability for Living Worlds

From Lagos packet loss to Sydney GPU saturation, how we built a single pane of glass for truly global simulation health.

Manish Mondal Sep 22, 2025 • 8 min
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Systems

Geo-Routing Matchmaking for Fair Fights

How we use geospatial data, network telemetry, and machine learning to place squads so a player in Dubai and one in Dublin feel equally snappy.

Kumar Saurabh Sep 02, 2025 • 10 min
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Creator Tools

Building a Planet-Scale Content Pipeline with AI

From photogrammetry in Reykjavík to motion capture in Vancouver, how our tools keep assets coherent across continents.

Koustav Mandal Aug 19, 2025 • 12 min
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Security

Geo-Aware Cheat Detection in Competitive Worlds

Combining device fingerprinting, geo anomalies, and behavior models to keep ranked ladders fair across regions.

Manish Mondal Aug 01, 2025 • 9 min