The rise of SSDs has changed the degree to which web apps are I/O bound. So the conventional wisdom from several years ago doesn't necessarily still hold. Check

The rise of SSDs has changed the degree to which web apps are I/O bound. So the conventional wisdom from several years ago doesn't necessarily still hold. Check out this blog post from the developer of Mailinator: http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2012/08/your-bottleneck-is-dead-long-live-your.html http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2012/08/your-bottleneck-is-de...