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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

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.