On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here's an interesting story about how cheap SSD has gotten and the > implications of that on web applications: Link that to this.... http://www.cringely.com/2011/10/12/the-second-coming-of-java/ "Ruby is easier than Java. It runs something like seven times slower but who cares? Were still waiting for the database. And if you are a new developer you can learn Rails and be one of the cool kids." [...] "But if you replace spinning disks and moving read/write heads with Solid State Disks (SSDs) and no heads at all, local seek times drop to zero. Thats why Ruby and its surrogate languages will eventually disappear. When SSDs gain enough capacity there will be a shift from the Ruby world back to the Java world." Food for thought... -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:360044 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
