9 Aug 2026, 18:32 UTC1 viewsread 9 August 2026 back. On <underlineJuly 11, 2026, game publisher AstroLabe Games, of F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch fame, reaffirmed its commitment to offer physical discs for all its upcoming game titles. This recognition by AstroLabe Games points to the fact that the market explicitly recognizes how discontinuing physical media alienated a core, highly dedicated gamer audience.
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With video games already being such…
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9 Aug 2026, 18:32 UTC1 viewsread 9 August 2026 lping to revitalize the domestic console scene. This changing landscape has also created new opportunities for Japanese console makers seeing growth beyond their mature home market.
Why physical video games matter to Chinese gamers
The Chinese government has a <underlinevery lengthy and robust process for approving video games, with a particularly onerous process for Western-based video games, which has stirred …
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9 Aug 2026, 18:32 UTC1 viewsread 9 August 2026 Hacker Noon - Medium Sony's disc-free PlayStation strategy could reshape China's console market
On <underlineJuly 1, 2026, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that it would stop producing physical discs for PlayStation games. This announcement was relatively ill-received by many around the world, but its implications are especially significant in China, where Japanese console makers play a unique role despite Ch…
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9 Aug 2026, 18:32 UTC1 viewsread 9 August 2026 g>Should You Still Be Running This Yourself?
A PaaS does not make any of these steps disappear. The build still runs. Artefacts still get stored. Migrations still execute, health checks still poll, and traffic still shifts one copy at a time. Abstracting these mechanics does not eliminate them. It standardises them, and pushes their maintenance onto a team whose entire product is deployment.
That is the question eve…
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9 Aug 2026, 18:32 UTC1 viewsread 9 August 2026 ms use variations of this idea. A blue-green deployment runs the full new version beside the old one, then flips all traffic at once. A canary release sends a tiny share of users to the new version first, watching for errors before going wider.
Doing this by hand means writing orchestration logic, managing load balancer rules, and handling every edge case where a step fails halfway. That is months of engineering ef…
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9 Aug 2026, 18:32 UTC1 viewsread 9 August 2026 later. That stored history is also what makes rollbacks possible, which we will get to soon.
On a PaaS, artefact handling is standard practice by default. Every deploy produces a numbered release. The platform stores it, tracks it, and can restore it. You do not have to design a registry strategy, write promotion scripts, or assign an engineer to own them. The discipline is built in.
Database Migrations: The Ris…
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9 Aug 2026, 18:32 UTC1 viewsread 9 August 2026 Hacker Noon - Medium What Happens During a Production Deployment? A Behind-the-Scenes Guide
You push your code. A few minutes later, it is live for real users.
Between those two moments runs a long chain of machinery: builds, artefacts, migrations, health checks, traffic shifts. Every production engineer depends on that chain, and many teams still build and operate it themselves.
Deployment infrastructure has quiet…
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9 Aug 2026, 18:32 UTC1 viewsread 9 August 2026 tracks-the-next-step">Why were professional tracks the next step?
Because the demand for new skills doesn't end after school. Look at the labor market, and it becomes obvious that people increasingly have to master new fields over the course of their lives.
So it seemed logical to add tracks to the platform that give people practical materials and tools for in-demand fields and help them start earning. Today, these …
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9 Aug 2026, 18:32 UTC1 viewsread 9 August 2026 Hacker Noon - Medium How to Build an Education Platform That Supports People Through Different Stages of Life
Over the past few years, the online education market has gone from niche courses to large-scale ecosystems capable of supporting people through different stages of life. One of the entrepreneurs who doesn't simply watch these changes but shapes them is Timur Ibragimov, founder and CEO of the education platfor…
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