alt Hacker NewsThat's a good point, but when one laptop can do 102545 transactions per second, overprovisioned capacity is kind of a more reasonable thing to use than back when you needed an Amdahl mainframe to hit 100 transactions per second.
That's a good point, but when one laptop can do 102545 transactions per second, overprovisioned capacity is kind of a more reasonable thing to use than back when you needed an Amdahl mainframe to hit 100 transactions per second.
As compute becomes cheaper your argument becomes more and more true.
But it only works if workloads remain fixed. If workloads grow at similar rates you’re back to the same problem.