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I'd be interested to know why the OP never considered Heroku

• lobster_johnson 10y ago
  Heroku is hosted on AWS, and so you inherit the performance, but lose the ability to control it (no way to select local SSDs or enable IOPS, as far as I know, for example), while at the same time paying a large premium for the convenience of using their platform.
  • holografix 10y ago
    Thanks lobster_johnson, yeah I know Heroku is ephemeral so data is stored in a DB or somewhere else, often S3. Just wondering what kind of work he's doing that took him from AWS straight to GCE without stopping to think about Heroku. Maybe you've hit the nail in the head, he's writing to disk a lot for some reason?
    • lobster_johnson 10y ago
      A lot of the article's focus was on network performance, local SSD availability and I/O performance. I think it's safe to say his use case involves a lot of I/O. If "thehftguy" means HFT == high frequency trading, then that's not surprising.
• andrewguenther 10y ago
  At that scale Heroku would probably cost 5x their current bill.