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Thank you very much for the positive feedback and as promised here is your first chapter. Probably still a little dry, but i'm enjoying setting the scenes, we will get into things more as time goes on. I will warn you, I am a college student, and thus timing of chapters will be based around that as my studies do take priority. Thanks again for reading!
"Well" The man stumbled briefly as he spoke "That request must just not be, be logged in the latest version, just have everything ready to roll for public release next Friday alright?" The blue jeaned man said as he exited the room.
Christopher sat motionless for a moment, pondering what he had just heard. Some 'Nervgear' contraption hijacked people's brains and gave them some fancy gaming experience, and his network would be the first to have the public experience it. He shook his head and closed his Panasonic Toughbook, taking it by its handle he headed down the maze of hallways to a large double doorway with "Data Center" printed on a small placard on the door, he shoved the key into to lock and opened the door.
The sound from inside the room was incredible, the roar of the HVAC units, the servers, switches and other appliances sucking in the cold air to keep their inner circuits from melting under their own heat. Chris walked to the new set if equipment racks that housed the node to this instance of the program.
This was a small node compared to the rest of the North American infrastructure to this project. Some of his best work he and his team put into this whole system. 50 racks of equipment all working harmoniously, breathing their lifeless breath to make the code, the 1s and 0s fly around and make this one system operate. He stared pondering, at the neatly cabled fiber switches 25 racks of just these, lights on each port indicated the flurry of activity over each of the network sockets. "People's lives" He said out loud in thought as he let one cable run though his hand, letting it flop back down under it's own weight.
He walks around to the other side where the hundreds of Dell PowerEdge servers hummed, each one with enough RAM and processor power it probably could find a cure for cancer he thought to himself. The rack of endless hard drives had small flickering lights as Christopher's masterfully optimized database was constantly written to and read from. Chris leaned against the far wall staring at his system, a thousand he's designed just like it, heck this whole room he designed and maintained, but this one system now more than ever meant so much more. There could be no fault of his, no lag, no downtime. He'd fired more than one person just for that one word, downtime, how he loathed that word. This wasn't just big commerce though, what would happen if someone connected to his system timed out. Do you wake up? Do you die? How can anyone know? He didn't intend to find out on any account of his or his team.
Chris walked out of the room with determination, this would be the best most optimized online gaming system anyone has ever thought of. All his nodes, Maine, New York, Washington DC, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Chicago, Colorado, Washington, California, Hawaii, and Alaska. Every single node of this system would be so fast, so stable, it would be a model for the future. He would see to it personally. He had two weeks.
Christopher walks into his office and sat down, picking up his phone "We're having a meeting at 1… make time this is important."