Writing reasonably sized CloudScript

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Ben asked Aug 2, '17

Writing reasonably sized CloudScript

We have a game that relies heavily on CloudScript to handle metagame/economy logic. Over time, the CloudScript JavaScript file has gotten fairly large (3K lines) and we expect it to get significantly bigger over time. There are also a couple utility JavaScript libraries we would like to include (an advanced math library for example) that would also significantly increase the size.

Under normal circumstances, we expect about 4-8 CloudScript calls per minute, per player, while they are in the metagame.

Our entire metagame is also computed on the client for responsiveness, so execution times of 1-2 seconds are acceptable for us.

What we're wondering is, could this be a problem down the line? Does PlayFab have to do a lot of work to spin up huge javascript files for every CloudScript call?

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Answer 1 · 2017-08-02T01:28:27Z

brendan answered Aug 2, '17

The way the logic service (Cloud Script) works is that one or more servers are going to have your script loaded, depending on the concurrent user level and frequency with which they're calling into the script. The resource requirements for other titles are part of this as well, but for a popular title that has each player calling a script every minute, it's likely you won't have a period where there's no logic server that has your script loaded. So no, we wouldn't expect there to be any issues due to the size of the script.

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Ben commented · Aug 02, 2017 at 04:56 PM

That's great to know, thanks!

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