John Waycott wrote: > I wrote a simple Python program that acts as a buffer between a > transaction network and a database server, writing the transaction logs > to a file that the database reads the next day for billing. The simple > design decoupled the database from network so it wasn't stresed during > high-volume times. The two systems (one for redundancy) that run the > Python program have been running for six years.
Six years? With no downtime at all for the server? That's a lot of "9s" of reliability... Must still be using Python 1.5.2 as well... -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list