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Programming Throwdown.

Episode 23.

Hadoop.

Take it away, Jason. Hey, everybody. So we're, we actually got a pretty awesome question from the audience that we want to kind of start the show with. We have an audience? I thought it was just you and me and our moms. So yeah, our mom is this awesome question. It was, how's it going? Wait, wait, our wait our mom doesn't make any sense

oh yeah no that

never mind your mom

my mom this sounds like we're making bad mom

mom jokes but I'm not really yeah I think

I think I just diss my own mom anyway

so Marco Aurelio

sent a question and

he's looking at doing some

C sharp.net coding for a website that's interested in

making and he was sort of interested his question was you know he knows that like you know server side

stuff you know the code and the the CPU is used on the server and so if you have you one user, you're using some amount of CPU. If you have a thousand users, you're using, you know, maybe not a thousand times, but the CPU scales up, right? So his question is, how can you big websites? Like, is it true that big websites like eBay and Amazon and things like that, you know, run things on the server side and how

do they do that and how did the server not explode? And then along those lines like what

languages should you focus on learning? Yeah, so I mean it sounds like he had a question there.

He has an idea and so his idea was to kind of kind of build a website but he's worried

about it scaling what technology is going to choose. Yeah, totally. So I have a slightly different answer, and mine is that I think sometimes in the tech community

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