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Optimization done right. After a certain point, datacenter growth (both physically and logically) gets so brutal that you need to consider running things more
by pmlnr 10y ago
Optimization done right.
After a certain point, datacenter growth (both physically and logically) gets so brutal that you need to consider running things more efficiently.
- imaginenore 10y agoThey just postponed the inevitable. You can't optimize significantly forever. They will have to start getting more storage soon.
- wpietri 10y agoEvery meal you eat is postponing the inevitable. But I imagine you still think it's worth doing.
- zaroth 10y agoIndeed. They spent ~$1m of engineering talent and took on some significant technical debt in order to save recurring annual datacenter cost. I'd say if they reduced their datacenter annual cost by at least $5m it was money well spent. From the sound of it they actually saved a lot more than that. And by increasing their overall storage efficiency it's a feature that pays dividends even when they do ultimately add more storage in the future.