A Conversation with Patrick Chu
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on 12 Jul 2006 |
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Patrick Chu is the founder and lead developer for
ItsYourTurn.com (IYT), a popular turn-by-turn gaming site
that has been in operation since 1998. Developing, testing, and supporting IYT is handled by Patrick, two other full-time
software developers, and a part-time support staff. ItsYourTurn.com has over 2,500,000 registered accounts,
records around 700,000 game moves per day that result in four million daily page views and a SQL Server 2005 database
with over 470 million rows of game moves. Initially, IYT was powered by custom C++ ISAPI extensions, but has since moved
over to using ASP.NET 2.0.
I've been playing games on IYT for years (my two favorite games being Chess and
Stack4x4, a variant of Connect4) and had exchanged brief emails with Patrick
a couple times in the past. Clearly there's a lot that can be learned, both about technology and business, from a person
with the experience and background of Patrick Chu. I recently emailed Patrick some questions about IYT, both from a business
and technology standpoint. He was kind enough to write back with some very detailed and valuable answers that he agreed to
let me post here. Read on to learn more about ItsYourTurn.com, the
technology behind it, Patrick's views on business and the future of web development, and many other interesting topics!
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