Tag: internet

c1000k

Part 1 and Part 2 in this series showed how to build a comet application using mochiweb, and how to route messages to connected users. We managed to squeeze application memory down to 8KB per connection. We did ye olde c10k test, and observed what happened with 10,000 connected users. We made graphs. It was fun, but now it’s time to make good on the claims made in the title, and turn it up to 1m connections.

the next meaningful benchmark might be to serve all internet users in the world from one machine. c1000m?

Reactionary Change

“Nothing has been so direct as the Netanyahu Web site, though we have seen others with shades of it”. When a campaign is successful, “people are going to knock things off, both in terms of functionality and aesthetic.” Websites aside, for liberals in both countries, the idea of Mr. Netanyahu as the Obama candidate of Israel seems mystifying. Of the 3 main contenders for prime minister in February’s election, including Tzipi Livni of Kadima and Ehud Barak of Labor, Mr. Netanyahu is the most hawkish and the least interested in the focus on dialogue with adversaries that Mr. Obama made a centerpiece of his foreign policy platform.

Wherein “change” is co-opted by the ultra reactionaries