Brown trousers time :~

[Paul Makepeace]

On 10/7/07, Lyle - CosmicPerl.com <perl at cosmicperl.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>  Soon I'll be embarking on the largest project I've ever undertaken.
> It's going to be 10's of thousands of lines of code. It needs to be
> perfect (or damn close :))
>
> I've been doing a LOT of reading though my blue shelves of O'Reilly...
> As well as hitting a lot of different forums and lists and working my
> google-fu...
>
> Part's of the software need to be able to withstand large volumes of
> traffic... I'm talking about 100's, 1000's or even 10,000's of clicks
> per second!

If you're really getting 10K hits/s your biggest problem is going to
be how to spend the money quickly enough.

P