Bob La Quey wrote:
Simply an opinion but I will bet on pure software running on flaky cheap
hardware providing more performance and reliability per unit cost in the
long run. Ultimately the real win will be scalability. So for the same
cost you build a system of many more commodity components you just make
sure that your software can deal with the problems.
It seems to be working for Google. See
http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/economics-google-hardware-infrastructure
Some history
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000305.html
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000814.html
That may be true. But here is something everybody who cites Google
seems to forget:
Google doesn't have to be *correct*. Just good enough.
If Google lost 90% of its index tomorrow, while *Google* engineers would
be panicking, nobody outside Google would probably notice.
That's not to say commodity hardware with intelligent software still
isn't the right choice, but Google isn't what I call the best example.
-a
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