Sammy

"Vanilla+ is renowned as the premier vanilla server for an exhilarating Crystal PvP experience. There is no land claiming, killing is encouraged, and raiding is permitted.

Build your empire, raid bases, loot, and kill in your quest to survive and become the best against all odds."

Vanilla+ presented a unique challenge in that it required supporting high player counts on a single instance with industry-leading performance and reliability. I provided optimisations through various means; analysing spark reports to make configuration adjustments and forking plugins to rewrite inefficient code are just a few examples.

I established Vanilla+'s suite of custom Java plugins, some of which are publicly available on the Vanilla+ GitHub organisation.

Custom plugins allow for better control and understanding of the code executed on Vanilla+ every second.

The competitive advantage offered by custom plugins is clear, adding significant value to Vanilla+ over competing servers.

Performance-wise, developing custom plugins for Vanilla+ enabled me to implement advanced optimisations for some of our most resource-intensive plugins.

I provide Vanilla+ with constant monitoring and issue hotfixes to ensure the server operates as reliably as possible.

I do this through a range of tools, including Grafana, Atlassian Statuspage, Plan, and custom-developed tools that report back to a Discord channel.

Through the monitoring systems I have set up, I'm able to monitor hundreds of data points, from player retention to I/O requests, allowing me to quickly identify issues and deploy patches swiftly.