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It's funny that things that are pinnacles of human engineering exist like this where the general public has no idea it even exists, though they (most likely) us
by SteveNuts 1y ago
It's funny that things that are pinnacles of human engineering exist like this where the general public has no idea it even exists, though they (most likely) use it every single day.
- ninetyninenine 1y agoI find red dead redemption 2 more impressive. I don’t know why. It sounds stupid but S3 on the surface has the simplest api and it’s just not impressive to me when compared to something like that. I’m curious which one is actually more impressive in general.
- SteveNuts 1y agoSimple to use from an external interface yes, the backend is wildly impressive. Some previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36900147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36900147
- koito17 1y ago> S3 on the surface has the simplest api and it’s just not impressive [...] Reminded of the following comment from not too long ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43363055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43363055
- UltraSane 1y agoAWS has said that the largest S3 buckets are spread over 1 million hard drives. That is quite impressive.
- ninetyninenine 1y agoRed dead redemption 2 is likely on over 74 million hard drives.
- SteveNuts 1y agoThere's likely over a trillion active SQLite databases in use right now.
- simonw 1y agoI think you misunderstood. They're not saying S3 uses a million hard drives, they're saying that there exist some large single buckets that use a million hard drives just for that one bucket/customer!
- UltraSane 1y agoactually data from more than one customer would be stored on those million drives. But data from one customer is spread over 1 million drives to get the needed IOPs from spinning hard drives.
- sriram_malhar 1y agoThat's the strangest comparison I have seen. What axis are you really comparing here? Better graphics? Sound?
- ninetyninenine 1y agoComplexity and sheer intelligence and capability required to build either.
- sriram_malhar 1y agoAnd what is the basis for your claim? You are not impressed by AWS's complexity and intelligence and capability to build and manage 1-2 zettabytes of storage near flawlessly?
- ninetyninenine 1y agoIm more impressed by red dead redemption 2 or baldurs gate 3. There is no “basis” other my gut feeling. Unless you can get quantified metrics to compare that’s all we got. For example if you had lines of code for both, or average IQ. Both would lead towards the “basis” which neither you or I have.