Does ToysRUs still use CF since Moving to amazon?
At 11:46 AM 12/13/00 -0500, Greg Creedon you wrote:
>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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