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Artur Bergman (Wikia) on SSDs at O'Reilly Velocity - Fuck NoSQL, Sharding, ... (livestream.com)
23 points by dajobe on June 16, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



SSDs remind me of the old "the russians used a pencil" joke [1]. Artur's presentation was funny, and maybe a little ridiculous in its presentation, but 100% true. We all spend a whole lot of time fighting IO on our infrastructure when we could spend a few bucks and fix the problem at it's core: spinning magnetic platter storage sucks.

1 - Yes, I know it's not real, but it's funny and it makes a great point.


yup.




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