How to I process one million hits a minute?
owkaye: Tech Issue #4 - BATCH PROCESSING?I've never done batch processing before, but some have suggested it, and I don't understand how it works just yet.  My current concept is that I would receive (for example) 15,000 bids during a one-second period and I would store them in RAM as they are received.  Then at the end of this one-second period I would have the software process the batch -- which probably means updating the position of the current unique high bid, determining the status of each of the 15,000 bids in relation to this new position, and creating and delivering 15,000 unique HTTP responses.  Is this description totally wrong, or is this somewhat close to the way "batch processing" might work for me?