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White fade Computer Programming — Mozy Deathmatch

Sunday, November 5th, 2006
Yesterday I signed up for the $10,000 Mozy.com Deathmatch, a computer programming contest.Mozy, the product of Berkeley Data Systems of Amrican Fork, is a very cool best-of-breed personal online data backup system. To keep up with technology development, Berkeley sponsored a contest to find top programmers around Utah. I expect the top winners will all be getting notes and phone calls to remind them what a wonderful place American Fork is to work.

There were two online elimination rounds yesterday with ten challenges to be completed within strict time limits. Most had to be done within ten minutes. Then the competitors who completed all or almost all the challenges were invited to a live round in American Fork.

There were eight of us left at American Fork at 4:00pm for the final round. The challenge was to write an extremely high-throughput internet server from scratch in ninety minutes. Unless you’ve done it before, that is almost impossible. But we did get several entries which came close to the theshold of processing ten thousand simultaneous connections.

Since none of us quite crossed the line, however, we agreed to split the prize money and look forward to another contest next year.

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