Two devs spent almost all of today's work trying to figure why our dedicated server builds on #PlayFab kept ending up in "Unhealthy" state.

We relatively quickly saw that "Propping Failed", but had a hard time diagnosing why...

Attempts to recreate the issue locally all failed (as in: the server was running just fine).

Finally a coworker managed to connect to the VM between the error message and the VM going down.

It turned out that simply the virtual machine's storage was full.

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The #PlayFab documentation for DeleteInventoryCollection states "is an asynchronous operation and may take longer".

I was expecting it to take a couple of seconds therefore.

It takes hours.

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If you need updated #PlayFab cloud script bindings for #TypeScript, and are wondering where the files in https://github.com/PlayFab/SdkTestingCloudScript are coming from:

They are generated using https://github.com/PlayFab/SDKGenerator from the specifications in https://github.com/PlayFab/API_Specs

We just used this tool to generate bindings for the Economy v2 API. (Those also need the "beta" flag enabled.)

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I was shocked when I saw that the #PlayFab #UnrealEngine plugin uses a TSharedPtr<UPlayFabAuthenticationContext>, where the UPlayFabAuthenticationContext is a UObject.

I always thought this to be impossible.

They use this #Hack to make it work:
- First create a TSharedRef<TStrongObjectPtr<UObject>>.
- Then use the aliasing constructor
TSharedPtr(TSharedPtr<OtherType>, ObjectType*) to create a new shared pointer using the Shared Reference as first, and the UObject as second parameter.
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If you're a developer using #PlayFab, today is a good day! The team has announced a public preview of the new Entity Stats and Leaderboards features:

🔹Independent Stats and Leaderboards
🔹Multidimensional stats, storable on any Entity
🔹Annotatable with custom metadata
🔹And more!

Read on: https://developer.microsoft.com/games/articles/2024/09/introducing-new-leaderboards-and-statistics-for-playfab/

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