Casino (Gwydion)
11. Future Development
As the casino software evolves, certain caveats and potential improvements have been identified. These considerations pave the way for future enhancements and optimizations.
11.1 Laravel Performance
Caveat
Laravel, while suitable for many areas, presents challenges in critical areas such as handling bets. This becomes a bottleneck for fast gameplay, as the responsiveness of gameplay is constrained by the request/response time of the APIs.
Potential Improvement
- Critical Area Optimization: Recognizing the performance limitations in critical areas, explore optimization strategies specifically tailored for handling bets. This might involve targeted optimizations, caching strategies, or exploring alternative technologies for handling time-sensitive transactions. It should be noted that in order to explore alternative technologies, then some of the other caveats discussed here would first need to be addressed, such as the Authentication and Authorization Seperation and the Event Processing.
Overall Laravel Performance
While Laravel serves well in many aspects of the casino software, it's worth noting that the code has been extensively profiled, and there may be limited options for further optimization within the Laravel framework.
Additional Improvement
- Continuous Performance Monitoring: Implement continuous performance monitoring to identify and address bottlenecks as they arise. This proactive approach ensures that performance improvements are an ongoing part of the development process.
11.2 Authentication and Authorization Separation
Caveat
The Laravel framework currently handles authentication and authorization, and while convenient, there may be a need for more specialized handling in the future.
Potential Improvement
- Specialized Handling: Consider developing or integrating with more specialized authentication and authorization solutions to address potential scalability and customization requirements. This is currently preventing APIs from being rewritten using other technologies as currently all requests would need to be proxied through the Laravel application for handling authn and authz which would be far too slow.
11.3 Event Processing
Caveat
The current event system serializes and deserializes events as PHP classes, making it challenging to process events outside of PHP applications.
Potential Improvement
- Rethinking Event Handling: Consider redefining the event system to allow for more flexibility. Explore alternative approaches where events can be processed by multiple subscribers, even if they are written in different languages. This decoupling of event processing can improve scalability and extensibility.
11.4 Financials Tables Refactoring
Caveat
The financials tables in the database have become complex and may benefit from refactoring for better organization and maintainability.
Potential Improvement
- Total Tables Based on UI/UX Requirements: Evaluate the possibility of creating "total" tables that are specifically tailored to meet UI/UX requirements. This can simplify financial data retrieval for certain scenarios and improve the efficiency of financial operations. It would probably be a good idea to have these tables populated by subscribers of events such as
BetPlacedEventorDepositCreatedEventetc...
These identified caveats and potential improvements offer a roadmap for future development. Developers are encouraged to assess the feasibility and impact of these improvements based on the evolving needs and requirements of the casino software.