Re: 1 Million users.. I can't Scale!!
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Re: 1 Million users.. I can't Scale!!

From: Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk>
Date: Wed Sep 28 2005 - 20:31:11 CEST



yoda wrote:


> 2)The content is sent through an SMS gateway (currently we only send


> text messages).



[...]



> 4)The users need to get the data a minimum of 5 seconds after it's


> generated. (not considering any bottlenecks external to my code).



You surely mean a "maximum of 5 seconds"! Unfortunately, I only have a


passing familiarity with SMS-related messaging, but I imagine you'd


have to switch on any and all quality-of-service features to get that


kind of guarantee (if it's even possible).



Paul


Received on Thu Sep 29 19:17:12 2005