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Zynga
Company blog · code.zynga.comprogramminggames
Zynga is the company blog at code.zynga.com, writing about programming and games. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Scale Something: How Draw Something rode its rocket ship of growth”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Zynga's tech blog for engineering posts on its infrastructure, scaling during game launches, and the zCloud private cloud, alongside its open-source releases.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Scale Something: How Draw Something rode its rocket ship of growth2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-18
What Hacker News says?
Zynga has actually open sourced a bunch of stuff. Nothing earth shattering, but there's good stuff there. See https://github.com/zynga and their tech blog http://code.zynga.com/
Comment linking /
on “Game Over: Zynga Shuts Down PetVille And 10 Other Titles”Submitted Zynga Ports Cocos2D-X to Emscripten as a story · 73 points
HN discussionThey posted about their infrastructure and mad dash to scale during the launch weeks. http://code.zynga.com/2012/04/scale-something-how-draw-somet... It doesn't talk about current problems, but it may be possible to extrapolate. Still, with user counts going down, scaling problems should be a thing of the past.
Comment linking /2012/04/scale-something-how-draw-something-rode-its-rocket-ship-of-growth/
on “Draw Something Loses 5 Million Users a Month After Zynga Purchase”Submitted zBase – A high-performance, elastic, distributed key-value store as a story · 60 points
HN discussionThis is the most complete public release of info about zCloud that I can see out there: http://code.zynga.com/2011/08/meet-zcloud-the-private-cloud-...
Comment linking /2011/08/meet-zcloud-the-private-cloud-infrastructure-behind-zynga/
on “Zynga readies private cloud to run partners games ”Submitted ZooKeeper: Updating thousands of configuration files in under a second as a story · 55 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zynga’s first foray into WebGL, and how it runs on IE10 as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted zPerfmon – Zynga’s Server Performance Analysis Tool is Now Open as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cross Platform Compiler and Runtime as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript Bindings for C and Objective-C as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scale Something: How Draw Something rode its rocket ship of growth as a story · 1 points
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