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Don't your distributed systems use databases of some sort?

• alpaca128 4y ago
  And why does a DB user need to know those details? Isn't it the whole point of DB systems to provide an optimized solution that allows users to focus on other things?
  • dotopotoro 4y ago
    Databases always try to flush something to disk after transaction, just in case unexpected reboot happens. So your writes to db have direct correlation to disk writes. Choice of db schema impacts physical layout on ssd. E.g. Different tables are more likely to be on different ssd pages resulting in random writes. Databases are insanely complex, but not magic.