Insights With Trent Munday

What The Metaverse Teaches Us About Building For Scale #1410

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Decentraland is the place to be. Well, if you want to be in a Metaverse, that is. A Metaverse is basically an online virtual world. A bit like a social network where you actually insert yourself it the virtual world, through your avatar. You'll be hearing a lot more about the Metaverse. But my first experience in Decentraland was pretty crappy. Why? Because there just weren't many other avatars (people) in the 'world' when I was there...at least not on my server. You see, Decentraland is built for massive scale and that means it's built across multiple servers. If you happen to be on a server where there are lots of other users, your experience can be great. But if, like me, you're on a server with not many active users...your experience sucks! The lesson here for any business is that if you build for scale, you need to remember that you will also have users/customers/guests that use your product or service 'pre-scale'. If the experience you have created relies on scale, what sort of experience wil