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For such a big expenditure, some prototyping first? Maybe buy a mainboard or two and some CPUs/HDDs/SSDs and benchmark them on your specific workloads. Also loo
by peller 10y ago
For such a big expenditure, some prototyping first? Maybe buy a mainboard or two and some CPUs/HDDs/SSDs and benchmark them on your specific workloads. Also look into using something like bcache if going all-SSDs is too expensive.
- sytse 10y agoWe're in a rush because we need GitLab.com to get fast now. We might shoot ourselves in the foot by not prototyping first but we're taking the risk. We're hiring more consultants to help us with the move. Bcache is mentioned in the article under the disk header.