Jesse Donkervliet
PhD student in the Massivizing Computer Systems group at VU Amsterdam
NU Building Office 11A13
Boelelaan 1111
Amsterdam, Netherlands
I am a PhD student and teacher at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. I document this adventure on this website.
I do research on the scalability of Minecraft-like games. These games offer players a sandbox where they can let their creativity run free. This allows not only the game’s developer, but also its community, to participate in creating engaging and meaningful content for a world-wide audience.
Next to my research, I teach Computer Networks to first-year Computer Science students at VU and am involved in several other courses in the Computer Science bachelor and masters programs.
news
Sep 26, 2024 | I gave a guest lecture for the Advanced Network Programming course at VU Amsterdam about networking for online games. The slides are available here: gslides. |
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Sep 07, 2024 | I gave an invited talk about the Metaverse and my PhD research to the Cloud and Distributed Systems Lab led by Pedro García López, who kindly hosted me at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. The slides of my talk are available here: pdf. |
Sep 04, 2024 | Modifiable Virtual Environments (MVEs) are in the top 10 games with highest number of active monthly players. On PC, Fortnite, Minecraft, and Roblox are the top 3 most played games! Source: https://newzoo.com/resources?type=rankings&tag=all |
Aug 30, 2024 | I gave my website a new look! |
latest posts
Feb 17, 2023 | Measuring the Metaverse: accepted at HotCloudPerf 2023 |
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Feb 11, 2023 | VU Amsterdam Open Day — Computer Science Bachelor |
Feb 01, 2023 | Meterstick accepted at ICPE 2023 |
selected publications
- Servo: Increasing the Scalability of Modifiable Virtual Environments Using Serverless ComputingIn 43rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2023, Hong Kong, July 18-21, 2023, 2023
- Meterstick: Benchmarking Performance Variability in Cloud and Self-hosted Minecraft-like GamesIn Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, ICPE 2023, Coimbra, Portugal, April 15-19, 2023, 2023
- Can My WiFi Handle the Metaverse? A Performance Evaluation Of Meta’s Flagship Virtual Reality HardwareIn Companion of the 2023 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, ICPE 2023, Coimbra, Portugal, April 15-19, 2023, 2023
- Dyconits: Scaling Minecraft-like Services through Dynamically Managed InconsistencyIn 41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2021, Washington DC, USA, July 7-10, 2021, 2021
- Towards Supporting Millions of Users in Modifiable Virtual Environments by Redesigning Minecraft-Like Games as Serverless SystemsIn 12th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, HotCloud 2020, July 13-14, 2020, 2020
- Yardstick: A Benchmark for Minecraft-like ServicesIn Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, ICPE 2019, Mumbai, India, April 7-11, 2019, 2019