https://tmendez.dev/posts/ Recent content in Posts on Tim Mendez Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sat, 07 Sep 2024 20:24:53 -0700 https://tmendez.dev/posts/rng-git-hash-bug/ Sat, 07 Sep 2024 20:24:53 -0700 https://tmendez.dev/posts/rng-git-hash-bug/ Background I work on the live services game Dragon Prince: Xadia. We have iOS/Android clients, hosted gameservers, and a platform. Our gameservers and clients need to be in sync, so we have a field in our platform’s YAML configuration: gameServerVersion: <gitHashOfDeployedCommitGoesHere> This way, we can tell clients when they are out of date and need to update. This value is set dynamically by a TeamCity deployment job. The Bug One day, a good long while after we put this system in place, our QA lead pings me in the #game-ops channel on Slack: