On the first day of Glutinous Rice Ball Chat's launch, most employees in Source Code's and Source Intelligence's technical and operations departments worked overtime.
They had already made fairly optimistic internal projections before the launch.
But the results proved that even those optimistic projections had not been optimistic enough.
By ten that evening, registrations had passed ten million, with peak concurrent users reaching three million. During certain traffic spikes, a small number of task orchestration calls had begun timing out.
Fortunately, after their experience with Open Things being overwhelmed by traffic, they had run aggressive stress tests before launching Glutinous Rice Ball Chat. They had also carefully designed rate limiting and circuit breaking between every service layer. As early registrants used up their daily allowances, peak traffic gradually subsided.
Of everyone there, Jiang Songran, the head of computing infrastructure, was under the most pressure.
Traffic was already this high on the first day. How were they supposed to handle what came next?
He hurried over to Liu Yu and arranged a meeting with Han Luyi. Xue Zhaoheng attended too.
The topic was how to quickly assemble the chips they had salvaged a few days earlier into computing cards, then turn those cards into a computing cluster to ease the current traffic pressure.
Xue Zhaoheng opened his laptop and turned the screen toward Han Luyi and Jiang Songran.
"We've contacted all the production lines in Pengcheng," he said, pointing to several rows of data on the screen. "The materials are all ready, and we have production slots booked. With double pay, they can work through the May Day holiday too."
Jiang Songran's furrowed brow relaxed a little, but he still asked uneasily, "How fast can we get them?" "That still depends..." Xue Zhaoheng paused in thought. "I'm flying back to Pengcheng