alt Hacker NewsYou'd lose durability against process crashes.
If your system has a reasonable tolerance for power failure (multi-az multi-cloud), this can provide much better throughput
You'd lose durability against process crashes.
If your system has a reasonable tolerance for power failure (multi-az multi-cloud), this can provide much better throughput
Indeed, a common enough pattern for etcd is to run it backed by a RAMdisk and have multi-az availability + periodic backups + tolerance at a business level to be OK losing some recent data.