title: Is it possible for a server to get two requests at the exact same time?
body: <p>I'm a bit confused about how a server handles thousands of requests. I'd imagine that if there are thousands of requests, eventually two of them would have to hit the server at the exact same time. If two messages hit it at the same time, it can only handle one right?</p>
  
  <p>I know that if multiple requests hit a server in very close, but not exact same, times then it can distribute the work to other servers very quickly before it gets another job to do. What I don't get, is what happens when a machine gets two requests at precisely the same moments. </p>