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> Databases that are built into the application by default are the future. Our computers are definitely big enough. Interesting point. It's easy to forget that
by norir 2y ago
> Databases that are built into the application by default are the future. Our computers are definitely big enough.
Interesting point. It's easy to forget that in the past local storage was small and expensive so that it was necessary to have a separate database machine.
- nevdka 2y agoIt wasn't just storage. In the 90s, most servers were single core. Databases already had network interfaces so they could be shared by non-web applications running on desktops, and so were the natural place to split a website over multiple machines. This turned into the received wisdom of always putting your database on a separate machine, despite processing power and storage latency improving so much since the 486 and pentium days that network overhead dominated response times.