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hadsed
10y ago
Generally Kafka takes advantage of the OS page cache and the fact that its data is sequential. The reason you can back Kafka effectively with spinning disks is because Kafka is just an immutable log. OTOH you won't always have sequenti
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Python numerical libraries links to LAPACK/BLAS/etc because that's how people used to do scientific computing before Python. Also for scientific computing you're mostly CPU bound which means that no one would use Python