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>But as others noted, for most people who aren't cloudflare this doesn't really matter. Aren't most web applications I/O bound? The Arrakis team sped up Memcac
by acconsta 11y ago
>But as others noted, for most people who aren't cloudflare this doesn't really matter.
Aren't most web applications I/O bound? The Arrakis team sped up Memcached and Haproxy quite a lot by bypassing the kernel. It seems like there could be a large market for these techniques as they become easier to use.
http://people.inf.ethz.ch/troscoe/pubs/peter-arrakis-osdi14.pdf http://people.inf.ethz.ch/troscoe/pubs/peter-arrakis-osdi14....
- jeffreyrogers 11y agoHmmm, that's a good point. I was thinking more of a typical webapp, but you're probably right that there are certain classes of applications (e.g. caching) that are I/O bound under load.