Chapter 890 - 909: The Company’s Humblebrag Statement - Our Biggest Challenge Right Now Is Having Too Many Users
Chapter 890: Chapter 909: The Company’s Humblebrag Statement - Our Biggest Challenge Right Now Is Having Too Many Users
"Do you want to put out a stream teaser for promotion?"
"No," Wanxing immediately denied. "Does Juju even need promotion?"
"The backend shows your streaming channel has over ten billion views every single day. The average account clicks on it three to five times daily—"
People were waiting for her every single day.
"The comments under the official account are all begging you to go live as well," Wanxing added.
"Then what is it?" Qiuqiu asked.
"We need to know your exact start time and how long the stream will last. We ran a predictive model, and the number of online viewers and guests browsing at the same time will likely exceed thirty-five billion—
"When that happens, the number of people simultaneously hitting the button to grab food will skyrocket. The volume and length of the live comments will also be much higher than before. The maximum permission we originally opened for data replication was only one hundred million portions. If too few people manage to grab the food, we’re afraid many will be dissatisfied."
Therefore, after careful consideration from multiple angles, Wanxing explained, "I consulted the board of directors and our internal streamers. We’ve decided to shut down all other streams on the platform before you go live tomorrow."
This way, the operating mechanical brain might be able to withstand the impact of thirty-five billion people flooding into a single stream simultaneously.
"It will also allow us to allocate more energy to adjust the replication volume. We can raise the cap to three hundred million portions so more people can get a share," Wanxing said.
Those who got to eat wouldn’t complain.
Qiuqiu paused. "Do we really need to go to such lengths?" It felt like they were making too big of a fuss.
"If we don’t, the servers will overload, and all the other streams will lag," Wanxing replied. And according to the technical team’s predictions, the lag would be completely unplayable, just as bad as when the app had first launched.
"But if there are too many people, won’t it lag every time I stream?"
"Yeah, we’re already buying mechanical brains overnight, and Changhai is also supplying us... but it’s going to take some time."
Therefore, the biggest challenge New Star currently faced was that the bare-bones version of the app simply couldn’t handle such massive traffic.
Alright then.
Originally, Qiuqiu had wanted to stream a bit longer to produce more food, but since the rest of the platform had to make accommodations for her, she compromised. "Then let’s do noon to 3:00 PM."
"OK."
They chatted casually for a little while longer before the company staff had to go prepare the deployment for tomorrow’s stream, and the four of them ended the joint call.
Qiuqiu thought about it and decided to open Taotao Fresh first. She needed to buy her ingredients.
To welcome the newcomers, deep-fried lotus root pork meatballs were an absolute must, and milk mochi was another fantastic choice. As for the Rice... making Rice bowls would take too much time, so why not make sushi?!
That would work perfectly.
After mentally listing out tomorrow’s lunch menu and placing her order, she heard light footsteps outside the door, followed by familiar voices. Qiuqiu subconsciously looked up just as her roommates and Mei Lin pushed the door open and walked in.
Seeing that Qiuqiu was no longer in bed, the four girls revealed varying degrees of pleasant surprise.
"Qiuqiu!" Liu Tingting was the most expressive of the bunch. "You’re finally awake! You’re finally awake!" She darted straight over to Qiuqiu and spun around in a circle.
This made Qiuqiu burst into laughter. "I haven’t seen you in a month, but Tingting is still our dorm’s resident ray of sunshine."
Michelle and Meng Chun also greeted her. Qiuqiu responded to each of them before looking over at Mei Lin, who was still standing by the doorway.
It was strange. The normally radiant and endlessly proud heiress actually looked somewhat haggard and pale today.
"Mei Lin—"
Especially when Qiuqiu stood up, walked toward her, and called her name, Mei Lin quickly spun around and ran away.
Qiuqiu was confused. She said a quick word to her roommates and chased right after her.