Valid question! 1) Learning & researching capabilities of modern HW 2) Running RDBMS stress tests (until breaking point), Oracle, Postgres+TimescaleDB, MySQL,

Valid question! 1) Learning & researching capabilities of modern HW 2) Running RDBMS stress tests (until breaking point), Oracle, Postgres+TimescaleDB, MySQL, probably ScyllaDB soon too 3) Why? As a performance troubleshooter consultant+trainer, I regularly have to reproduce complex problems that show up only under high concurrency & load - stuff that you can't just reproduce in a VM in a laptop. 4) Fun - seeing if the "next gen" hardware's promised performance is actually possible! FYI I have some videos from my past complex problem troubleshooting adventures, mostly Oracle stuff so far and some Linux performance troubleshooting: https://tanelpoder.com/videos/ https://tanelpoder.com/videos/