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Zelda and DevOps: Linked by logs in Tears of the Kingdom

22. Juni 2023

"The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom" (TOTK) is an award-winning game that was released on May 12 this year. The game fans were so excited that some took vacation or sick leave to play uninterrupted. The game sold more than 10 million units in three days!  Zelda TOTK presents an open world where players, as Link (the protagonist), can explore, build, and solve puzzles. An interesting phenomenon emerged in which players found they could use logs (as in “long wooden objects”) to solve challenges in the game.

Let’s look at parallels between the world of the game and the world of DevOps—where logs (as in “timestamped records of events”) are used to solve many puzzles as well. Some concepts hold true in both worlds, such as why logs are preferable to other tools, the limitations of logs, and how combining multiple logs is extremely useful. ...read more!