The situation monitor was installed and the number of users were being counted in real-time. The sales of Black Friday wasn’t only on the day itself.
Some companies did their sales from the 1st of November. They would increase their discounts as they neared Black Friday.
“How many now?”
“Don’t let your guard down just because there’s some room.”
The people who were monitoring the server had worry written all over their faces.
Also, the system where it would send a message or an e-mail when their was an overload, was implemented as well.
Despite all these, they couldn’t take their eyes off the screen.
Meaning, it was that important.
YongHo was also looking at the monitor.
“Oooh, it’s definitely cheap alright.”
There was even a laptop that would usually be a million won, sold at 300 thousand won. However, what YongHo was looking for wasn’t electronic devices like those.
While he was in the middle of looking at the screen, Na DaeBang popped out from behind him.
“Well, I’m looking to see if there’s anything to send home.”
Na DaeBang’s predictions were on the mark. Just by seeing YongHo flinching, he knew.
“You earn so much money, you should go to a department store to buy those things.”
“I will buy one there too and on here!”
Na DaeBang flapped a piece of A4 paper in front of YongHo’s eyes.
“The rate of discount on clothing and on which time they discount on!”
YongHo seemed honestly surprised. This was so-called insider information. A list that a normal consumer would never know, was in Na DaeBang’s hands.
“Y, yeah.”
From clothes to robot vacuum cleaners, and even massaging tools. He sent them all to his house in Korea.
He felt that he had never fulfilled his filial duty and that always weighed on his mind.
He felt that those weights had been lifted a little.
An ordinary salaryman of Korea had no choice but to go to the website at least once.
They could go on the website itself to buy, and there was a thing called substitute purchasing. If one had a slight interest, then they would be able to spend their money wisely with a little bit of effort.
“Should I buy a laptop?”
“Whoa? Isn’t this where oppa works?”
“Seems like they’re busy since it’s those sales and all.”
It’s too slow.
The connection suddenly got cut off.
“Well, it’s his punishment for leaving me.”
However, this wasn’t only happening in Korea. Many places around the world were now proceeding onto America, where there was a massive sale, through the internet.
Accordingly, the number of users only increased. Now it was about to go over the 10 millions into the 100 millions.
“Server status?”
“Scale out status?”
“Good.”
This was the most nervous moment in the year.
However, each of those nipped away from the budget.
That, was achievement.
The cost of 10 servers would be saved, and that would be an achievement.
That was how the incentives would increase, and the position within the company would be solidified.
As the years went by, the number of users on the website increased. That would lead to more sales.
That would fill Steve’s stomach in the form of an incentive.
“Scaling out in progress.”
They would increase the number of servers before the number of users went past 100 million. They brought in all their equipment.
Even those used for testing were brought in to divert traffic this week.
Scale out success.
Another ten servers were added.
The traffic(The amount of data sent to the server) would increase exponentially according to the number of increased users.
One click to see the product, reloading the page because one thought it was slow, all increased traffic.
Until now, there weren’t any problems.
All of the people here were waiting for that day to pass.
However, that was only a wish for those related.
“You musn’t be earning that much, why are you sending me such things?”
“So, when are you coming back to Korea?’
“……”
“I will go back after I do a little more. The company wants me to stay.”
“Huh?”
“Ah, aaah……”
“Ah, mom, I think I need to go back, something urgent came up.”
He wanted to talk more, but the moment marriage talk came out, YongHo hurriedly finished the call.
This was a name he hadn’t heard for a long time. Now, the time he left that place was nearing one year.
Korea was just about to go into winter. This place wasn’t that cold, but perhaps due to habit, YongHo pulled in his clothes.
“We’re going past 150 million users.”
That number of users was increasing gradually.
“How many more can we use?”
Steve’s question made the employee blur the end of his words. The scale of the company was quite big, so the equipment was sufficient.
“…What were you doing until now?”
“Really… there’s time now so go test it.”
Even if the specs of the servers were the same, it was unknown which issue may occur during an overload.
Sometimes, they also needed to monitor the server after they put a large amount of bad traffic using something called DDoS.
And to do that, time was absolutely insufficient.
Like how he got his hands on some information that others would have a hard time looking for, Na DaeBang’s footprints were always very wide.
“Really?”
“The almighty Chief is there, so would anything happen at all?”
“But you, did you finish developing the image processing library?”
Na DaeBang spoke while jumping in fright. As he had said, on D-Day, Black Friday, all employees had to monitor the situation.”
“Well, you can talk well.”
YongHo spoke while clicking his tongue. However, he didn’t say anything more either.
Snap.
Even if there was a 1% chance of a server breakdown, that meant one would break when operating 100 of them.
However, the day that happened just happened to be on the day that was different from normal.
“Yes……”
After the internet spread throughout the world, people could access the web using not just PCs but mobile phones.
Moreover, the original hardware was snapping out one by one.
“Shouldn’t we ask for help?”
“From the rumors, Mr.YongHo seemed so capable……”
“At this rate, we might have to limit the number of users……”
Their method was to keep a fixed amount of users.
“……”
However, there was no need for that.
“Am I late?”
YongHo spoke while putting down the laptop on his side.
Crrrack, crrack.
Stretching his fingers about twice, YongHo started typing.