mynovelweb Chapter 77 might have something to do with me.
Chapter 77 might have something to do with me.
The company was thrown into a state of tense busyness due to the unexpected website outage.
Lingyun and the operations engineer stared at the download requests flooding the server logs, causing the server to crash due to overload.
Ling Yun was completely baffled. The promotion hadn't even started yet, so where did this massive amount of traffic come from? It seemed to have appeared out of thin air.
"Investigate! Find out the source of the traffic as soon as possible!" Ling Yun frowned and ordered Eric, "Focus on analyzing the recommended source section in the visitor logs. See which website they were redirected from!"
Just as the technicians were about to analyze the server logs in detail, a slightly shy voice rang out, "Mr. Ling... Mr. Ling," a young engineer named David, wearing thick glasses, timidly raised his hand, "Um... it might... it might have something to do with me."
Instantly, everyone's eyes in the office turned to David.
Ling Yun looked at him: "David, explain yourself, what happened?"
David swallowed hard and explained nervously, "President Ling, didn't you say before that our Star System kernel is excellent and that we should open it up to attract developers? About a week ago, I posted some threads on BBS and some technical forums."
As David spoke, he walked to his computer and pulled up his posting history. The screen displayed a post titled "A Mysterious Open-Source Operating System 'StartOS' Has Been Discovered! Cutting-Edge Architecture, Performance Monster, and Comes with the Brand New Browser 'Starburst'!"
"In the post, I briefly introduced the design concept of the 'Starry Sky Operating System', such as the 0 (1) scheduler you mentioned, as well as the binder inter-process communication. I focused on the modular design of the Starry Sky system, which can be trimmed and you can directly delete the modules you don't need. It can also run smoothly on some older machines."
"I also introduced our Star Browser, and I attached pictures of our simple UI design and super-fast parsing and rendering speed. I also included a link to our official website at the end of the post."
David scrolled through the comments; the post was followed by a dense stream of replies.
"Is what the original poster is saying true? This system looks so futuristic!"
"Downloaded and testing in a virtual machine; the startup speed is indeed fast!"
"My God! This Star Browser renders pages more than twice as fast as Netscape!"
"I'm looking at their kernel code, it's truly a genius design! The scheduler's design is ingenious! The Starry Sky team is amazing, I'm in awe!"
"Please provide more technical details! Where's the link? Please post the official website address again!"
"The link upstairs is broken; it won't open!"
"Could the server be down? It was working fine when I logged in yesterday!"
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The post received an astonishing number of views and replies, and the forum administrator even pinned it to the top.
The Starry Sky operating system clearly caused a sensation in the geek and developer communities. These early adopters of the internet, as if discovering a new continent, flocked to Starry Sky's official website, trying to download and experience it.
It was this sudden surge of traffic, so concentrated, that instantly overwhelmed Star's servers.
The truth is clear.
It wasn't a malicious attack, nor was there any mysterious force helping; it was just an unintentional act by one of our own engineers that sparked a discussion in the tech world, leading to this "happy system outage."
Ling Yun looked at the heated discussion under the post, and at the tech enthusiasts' amazement at the system performance and browser speed. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Ling Yun patted David on the shoulder, "Well done, David! I have to give you a bonus. Your efforts alone are worth an entire publicity team!"
"Eric!" Ling Yun quickly snapped back to reality. Now was not the time for sentimentality. "The situation is clear: it's normal traffic. As planned, activate the backup server and fully divert the traffic! Restore download service as soon as possible! At the same time, contact the supplier for emergency capacity expansion!"
"clear!"
Just as Ling Yun was scrambling to cope with the sudden surge in traffic, thousands of kilometers away in Redmond, Washington, another tech giant was also drawn to the suddenly appearing Star Operations System.
In a spacious conference room at Microsoft headquarters.
Several senior Microsoft executives and key technical personnel sat around a rectangular conference table. The atmosphere was serious, a stark contrast to the bustling activity on the other side of the Starry Sky Hotel.
A technical assessment report jointly prepared by Microsoft's operations and testing departments sits quietly on the table. The report is titled "Preliminary Technical Analysis and Market Assessment of starOS and starburst".
A technical analyst manager is briefing attendees, including several vice presidents:
"...Gentlemen, we noticed this 'Starry Night Operating System' and 'Starry Sky Browser' while monitoring unusual activity in some core developer communities. We downloaded them and conducted preliminary performance tests."
He opened the report and pointed to the data icons within it:
"The conclusion is shocking, even somewhat unsettling..." The manager's tone was grave. "Their operating system kernel exhibits some design ideas that we have never seen before in terms of scheduling efficiency and memory management, and these design ideas are highly efficient."
He paused, then emphasized, "In our benchmark tests, the Starlight Browser beta version surpasses our current main IE3.0 in page loading speed and JavaScript execution efficiency, and is even 50% faster than Netscape's."
"Moreover, its stability is also excellent, even surpassing Netscape, which has the highest market share."
A murmur rippled through the conference room, and the IE team leader looked rather grim.
The testing manager didn't ignore these points. He added, "More importantly, based on feedback from the technical community and our preliminary analysis, this system advocates open-source principles, and its kernel code is already open source. This will help quickly attract developers, form an ecosystem, and combine with a high-performance browser. The ecosystem we've built up over so many years will be hard to resist, and our advantages will soon be surpassed!"
He didn't say anything more, but everyone present understood the subtext—although it was just a trivial project at the moment, its technological potential and development prospects posed a fundamental conflict with Microsoft and had the potential to overthrow it.
And so, the report was delivered to Bill Gates' desk, the head of Microsoft.