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It's been "double the pleasure double the fun" on the back end for some time now. 4-way, 8-way, 16-way server processor configurations are pretty run-of-the-mill these days. All that server stuff has been multithreaded, multiprogrammed and multiprocessed, and at this point it's pretty much a done deal right? By server stuff I mean the database app, the web server, the e-mail server, the E-bay server, the World-of-Warcraft server, etc. Sure the programming is a little dicey. The debugging and testing is a little unpredictable and treacherous at times but we manage to pull it off. The server stuff runs just fast enough so that the user doesn't give up hope and continues to keep coming back. Mission accomplished right?

February 10, 2009
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