Looking for a fun way to learn the fundamentals of network load balancing?

Looking for a fun way to learn the fundamentals of network load balancing?

Then you should check out Server Survival by Kostyantyn Pshenychnyy. 

It's an opensource game in the tower defense genre. Your job is to build a scalable network using ALBs, EC2 instances, WAF, RDS, and S3.

I saw commits as recently as 18 hours ago, so it looks like he is still adding to it.

I can see a lot of potential with this game. It's super basic right now, but if the developer even starts adding things as simple as CloudFront or Route53 load balancing, we could see some really fun play styles.

Adding another layer, like security groups or VPCs and subnets, could be really fun as well.

I suppose this is obvious considering my own work with isometric diagrams, but I love this diagram style.

I would like to thank Jonathan Limbird for putting this fun project on my radar.