This week we kept strengthening the infrastructure of The Corporate Wars, focusing on Orleans integration with databases and on the mechanisms for horizontal deployment.

Main progress

• Orleans clusters
  We reviewed the configuration, clearly separating which components are core and which ones are optional in the architecture.

• Distributed cache
  Integration of SQL Server / Redis as options for distributed cache, ensuring flexibility depending on the deployment environment.

• Automatic migrations
  Adjustments in FluentMigrator, so that database migrations are applied automatically in every environment.

• Self-installer service
  Implementation of a service that runs on the first startup of the system.
  This self-installer initializes the database and prepares everything without manual intervention, making horizontal deployments easier.

Conclusion

Thanks to the self-installer, cluster nodes can be deployed horizontally with minimal effort: just start them up and they configure themselves. This lays the foundation for a more robust and scalable backend, and allows us to move forward with the next steps in distributed simulation and Solana-based economy.

Next steps

• On-premises deployment and testing
  Validate the infrastructure in a real on-prem environment and ensure that horizontal scaling works as expected.

• LOD0 game world structure
  Start building the base structure of the game world (Level of Detail 0), which will serve as the foundation for higher levels of simulation and gameplay.