Toys R Us preloaded all of their data into RAM in a huge Application structure.
They had a server farm of 100 servers for normal load and 400 servers for holiday load.
300 people at one instant out of RAM is easy.
At 09:12 AM 12/13/00 -0800, Gregory Harris wrote:
>Oh, and I forgot:
>
>Remember most of this is at peak time (who cares where their package is at
>3am, except for UPS themselves?), I figure, 300 people hitting at any given
>instant is to be expected. CFLOCK can't handle that many alone. Also the
>database could be larger (if you could track from the last year, figure 1
>billion records maybe?)
>
>I hate to say this, Toys R Us only wishes they had 300 people on the site at
>a given instant (even if they did, the queries for some of the stuff doesn't
>have to be realtime and they can cache stuff), and they don't have 1 billion
>products to offer. Plus the queries being in Realtime (or close to it,
>small expiration dates a must). Again, any takers?
>
>Gregory Harris
>Web Developer
>Stirling Bridge Group LLC
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Greg Creedon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 8:46 AM
>Subject: RE: Just a stray thought
>
>
>> I bet the guy who worked on toysrus and who was at the ny cf users group
>> last night would have some ideas on this!
>>
>> btw, a round of applause and thanks to the Dinowitz family and Greg
>Nahrain
>> and others who put on the meeting last night under difficult circumstances
>> (tight space!). And I'm not just saying this since I won a copy of the
>> Fusebox book!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gregory Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:36 AM
>> To: CF-Talk
>> Subject: Just a stray thought
>>
>>
>> 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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