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SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud

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589 points greghn | 3 comments | 20 Feb 24 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.754s | source
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siliconc0w ◴[20 Feb 24 17:23 UTC] No.39444011[source]▶
Core count plus modern nvme actually make a great case for moving away from the cloud- before it was, "your data probably fits into memory". These are so fast that they're close enough to memory so it's "your data surely fits on disk". This reduces the complexity of a lot of workloads so you can just buy a beefy server and do pretty insane caching/calculation/serving with just a single box or two for redundancy.
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1. echelon ◴[20 Feb 24 17:25 UTC] No.39444040[source]▶
The reasons to switch away from cloud keep piling up.

We're doing some amount of on-prem, and I'm eager to do more.

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2. aarmenaa ◴[20 Feb 24 20:07 UTC] No.39446225[source]▶
I've previously worked for a place that ran most of their production network "on-prem". They had a few thousand physical machines spread across 6 or so colocation sites on three continents. I enjoyed that job immensely; I'd jump at the chance to build something like it from the ground up. I'm not sure if that actually makes sense for very many businesses though.
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3. kuchenbecker ◴[21 Feb 24 05:15 UTC] No.39450400[source]▶
I'm getting that opportunity, however I expect it will be the last as most have migrated to the cloud and smaller companies are appealing to me; smallest company (of 5) I've worked for had 4.4k employees and large companies have the resources to roll their own.

Unless there is an onprem movement I expect cloud to be the future as maintaining the tech stack onprem is difficult and we need to nake decisions down to the hardware we order.