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If he can buy 2 (or more) consumer-grade chips for the price of one enterprise-grade one and split his workload across them then it still makes more sense to go
by Nextgrid 3y ago
If he can buy 2 (or more) consumer-grade chips for the price of one enterprise-grade one and split his workload across them then it still makes more sense to go for the consumer version.
Consumer hardware gets undeserved bad rap despite being a good fit for many of today's "cloud-native" and fault-tolerant workloads.
Don't run critical infra on it that can't be fault tolerant (conventional RDBMS), but for your cluster of queue workers? Go right ahead since the queue is designed to handle failure of any nodes gracefully.