alt Hacker NewsEase of scalability - "it starts at 0.01x, but adding extra increments of 0.01x is easy, provided your app is designed for horizontal scalability"
Ease of scalability - "it starts at 0.01x, but adding extra increments of 0.01x is easy, provided your app is designed for horizontal scalability"
Far lower than 0.01x. Batching can get like a 30x boost, and horizontal scaling makes that impossible, so your upper limit is basically 0.03x. Then you throw it on a volume with 1/1000 the IOPS of a basic consumer drive. So more like 0.00001x, and you can pay through the nose to bring it up to 0.01x maybe.
People have zero concept of how incredibly absurdly fast even a slow computer is. Storage is literally 1000x faster than it was 15 years ago. My first job was firmware for enterprise storage arrays and IIRC we were aiming for 3M IOPS. That's not much more than what kids can put in their PS5 now, and these were arrays running companies like Walmart and JPMC.