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This is a very good piece except for this part.. Did you know you can buy a terabyte of RAM for around $10,000? Even if you had a billion users, this would giv
by nova22033 5y ago
This is a very good piece except for this part..
Did you know you can buy a terabyte of RAM for around $10,000? Even if you had a billion users, this would give you 1kB of RAM per user to work with
Not sure if the author is being facile..
- dekhn 5y ago142 bytes per person, right? A terabyte of ram has been a technical solution to a number of problems in genomics for quite some time and the players were quite willing to pny up the $250K it took to buy that a decade ago. Amusingly, the problem can be converted to... mapreduce and it doesn't need the RAM.
- pc86 5y agoI think the point was that that kind of conclusion shows a staggeringly impressive misunderstanding of how RAM works with regard to web applications.
- tashoecraft 5y agoI can guarantee Oz knows more about how RAM works than you do.
- dekhn 5y agoDo they?
- TuringNYC 5y agoI think his comment is spot on. Many problems have a naturally limited number of users/objects. You can scale up. Scaling up is seen as sacrilege, but scaling-out is expensive in human labor. Scaling up is inexpensive in human labor, and often inexpensive in hardware, and sufficient for many problems.