https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/600783770925420546 https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/600783770925420546 > Consulting service: you bring your bi

https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/600783770925420546 https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/600783770925420546 > Consulting service: you bring your big data problems to me, I say "your data set fits in RAM", you pay me $10,000 for saving you $500,000. Considering https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/8048/SYS-8048B-TR4FT.cfm https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/8048/SYS-8048B... which is a plain old 4U server not some fancy, super expensive NUMA machine can eat up 12TB memory, this quip and parent has quite some merits. 6TB is not even https://memory.net/product/s26361-f3843-e618-fujitsu-1x-64gb-ddr4-2133-lrdimm-pc4-17000p-l-quad-rank-x4-replacement/ https://memory.net/product/s26361-f3843-e618-fujitsu-1x-64gb... horrible at 57 504 dollars. That's about 48 engineering days if your engineer related expenses are 150 an hour (and it's likely they are more).