Persistence often uses much slower methods, one nice feature of my database is that it is distributed async. so I send all database queries to all regions which

Persistence often uses much slower methods, one nice feature of my database is that it is distributed async. so I send all database queries to all regions which means I get backup and players can play anywhere without transferring data first. I also use HTTP for real-time movement, you can do that if you strip all non-mandatory headers and use "Transfer-Encoding: Chunked" for the "Pull" socket. I use two sockets per client: "Push" (Client <-> Server) and "Pull" (Client <- Server). HTTP uses TCP and that will inevitably lead you to the old TCP vs. UDP threads. My take on it is that TCP works fine for real-time action games today if you use event based protocols instead of tick based!