Here's an interesting story about how cheap SSD has gotten and the implications of that on web applications:
http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/12/10/switch-your-databases-to-flash-storage-now-or-youre-doing-it.html Key takeaways: 1) With SSD for your DB, your DB server's bottleneck is the Network Driver, not read/write speed. You can actually saturate a NIC with traffic it's so fast. 2) With this sort of speed, things like MemCache may become obsolete. 3) When the database is no longer the bottleneck, optimization moves back to the application server. Interesting shift. This will make performance of your application (or lack thereof) much, much more visible. -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:360043 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
