1. Thursday, June 16, 2011

2. Thursday, June 16, 2011

3. Stop wasting your life
• And money
Thursday, June 16, 2011

4. $/GB/IOPS
• Joins work
• Fuck nosql
• Fuck sharding
• Write code for SSDs, use random IO!
• No code changes and so much faster
Really, you use mongodb? Really?
Thursday, June 16, 2011

5. • 8 million files
• 9 minutes for fsck
• 12 minutes for rsync backup
• 4 GB /sec random read average latency
0.1ms
• 2.2 GB/sec random write average latency
0.1ms
If you don’t access your data, don’t get SSD
Thursday, June 16, 2011

6. Low power
• 1 watt versus 15 watt
• Really save power unlike low power shitty
ARM/Atom CPUs
Spinning Rust = Tape
Thursday, June 16, 2011

7. Start small
• Intel 320s
• Ignore PCI Express cards and SLC
• You don’t need that at first
• 180 iops to ~40k iops is good enough
You don’t know how to run a Formula 1 car
Thursday, June 16, 2011

8. Artur Bergman
artur@fastly.com
@crucially
Awesome Web Acceleration
Thursday, June 16, 2011