How to I process one million hits a minute?
owkaye: Topic: LOAD TESTING DURING DEVELOPMENTowkaye (that's me) said: "This is not a system I can grow into, it must be capable of this performance from the very beginning."then ericb said: "I would suggest you load test extensively and make load testing a part of your development process from the get-go. Initially, I would load test to evaluate approaches and estimate hardware needs.and lallysingh said: "Build a load simulator. A raw mode that just sends over the handful of bytes, and a cooked mode that bothers to printf' a GET request."my reply: I don't know how to do this (or C coding or javascript coding) personally but thanks for pointing out these technical needs and more.  Your suggestions will be put to good use when I have a complete concept of the basic requirements, and I can "fill in the blanks" by hiring programmers and buying equipment as I go along.