Architecture overview of pomelo

The architecture overview of pomelo

This article is about the design and techinal choice of pomelo. Why we choose node.js, why we use this architecture, why we design that way. It is based on our experience of game development and a lot of studies on previous game server solutions.

Why we choose node.js?

Node.js is astonishingly suitable for game server development. In the definition of node.js, fast, scalable, realtime, network, all these features are quite suitable for game server.

Game server is a high density network application, it requires realtime, the network io advantage makes node.js and game server a perfect match. And more, :w