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I used to administrate a small fleet of sun sparc hosts with SSL accelerators. They were so much money $$$$. I proposed dumping them all for a smaller set of
by throwaway7ahgb 2y ago
I used to administrate a small fleet of sun sparc hosts with SSL accelerators. They were so much money $$$$.
I proposed dumping them all for a smaller set of x86 hosts running linux, it took 2-3 years before the old admins believed in the performance and cost savings. They refused to believe it would even work.
- rastignack 2y agoI have the same memories, trying to convince people to dump slow as hell sparc processors for database workloads in favor of X86 machines costing a 10th of the price. To this day I still argue with ex Solaris sysadmins.
- JeremyNT 2y agoI lived through that era too, it was wild to see how quickly x86 dethroned sparc (even Intel's big misses like Itanium were only minor bumps in the road). Those days, you had to carefully architect your infrastructure and design your workload to deal with it, and every hardware improvement required you to reevaluate what you were doing. Hence novel architectural choices. Everything is way easier for normal sized organizations now, and that level of optimization is just no longer required outside of companies doing huge scale.