When we say 'tracking' how many points between A and B do we want?
At 08:36 AM 13/12/00 -0800, Gregory Harris wrote:
>Ok, this is meant as no shameless plug but I read on their website:
>
>UPS expects to receive 5 million tracking requests on their website per day
>especially on their peak days (it reads something like that)
>
>Your mission: build a Cold Fusion application for UPS that could handle such
>a beating, how would you do this? Bear in mind:
>
>1) You will have to search through a database of approximately 245 million
>records (packages delivered)
>
>2) 5 million per day equals 60 per second, transactional integrity has to be
>TIGHT!
>
>3) Money is no real object (UPS needs this to work some how, but be
>realistic in terms of "what you get is what you pay for")
>
>Who's up for this?
>
>Gregory Harris
>Web Developer
>Stirling Bridge Group LLC
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