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> queued up on disk IO And there's where your legacy understanding fails. You're really not supposed to be doing a lot of disk IO in modern datastores in the f

by nknight 15y ago

> queued up on disk IO And there's where your legacy understanding fails. You're really not supposed to be doing a lot of disk IO in modern datastores in the first place. Your working set should be in RAM. > beat benchmarks If my vendor is investing time in beating benchmarks instead of solving real problems, I'm finding a new vendor.

eternalban 15y ago
"solving real problems" I am not at all addressing MongoDB here to be clear -- just your comment regarding worthwhile "problems" to "solve". It is not too difficult to foresee a future where energy costs will trump all other considerations, including development time, sys ops, etc. Specially for <X>aaS efforts, energy efficiency can clearly end up being a competitive edge.