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What is the benefit ? Why are we constantly creating pets out of what should be cattle ?

• ztorkelson 8y ago
  The benefits of persistent memory, as I understand it, are principally improved performance (higher throughput, lower latency) and secondarily ease of programming. (Edit: another obvious benefit is cost per gigabyte; this stuff is cheaper than RAM.) The benefits of having access to that technology on GCP (or another cloud) are the usual: reduced operational burden, increased availability, flexible pricing structure, elastic scalability, etc. Your question about pets vs cattle is a non sequitur. Nothing about this announcement or the underlying technologies are suggestive of how they should be used (or misused). It's just a new tool in the toolbox—and as a distributed systems engineer specializing in database technology, having easy access to this hardware at scale is extremely compelling.
• segmondy 8y ago
  too bad you got downvoted, i would imagine in-memory DB and large cache.
  • Dylan16807 8y ago
    > too bad you got downvoted It's pretty weird to call out people for making 'pet' servers because they're daring to attach storage to them.
    • rebelde 8y ago
      His native language isn't English, and people probably misunderstood his literally-translated idiom. Pet servers?
      • sciurus 8y ago
        Pet's vs cattle is an analogy that originated with English-speakers. http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-pets-vs-cattle/ http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-...