[mwitkow]

We use Thanos to provide the observability features (monitoring in particular) to Workers (i.e. user processes we run on our Cloud) that perform the simulation. You can have multiple Workers collaborating on a simulation of the economics or ecology that export monitoring variables that you want to track.

Since the simulation is inherently dynamic, and the number of Workers can change, Thanos helps us with achieving the necessary scale and retention for a hosted platform that is SpatialOS.

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I understand better now. I didn't read the post in detail, to be honest. I dug into the rest a bit.

Well it all looks like a pretty immense amount of effort and work to put that all together. I'm not a game dev, but I signed up to poke around. I've done a little VR tinkering before, so I'm curious about the potential applications in that realm as well.

I'm looking forward to see what comes of it.