[faizshah]

Cool, thanks for the insight! I love reading the thinking process behind design decisions.

On the subject of Azul's price: I think they would give you a high volume discount, but even half the price (1750) per server would be pretty outrageous for your use case.

For my use case I'm going with Apache Ignite right now for tiered off heap caching, but I'm not sure it would work for you guys. Might be worth a look though.

I admire Netflix OSS ecosystem. Thanks for the great work you guys do!

[desdiv]

Just curious, is that 3500 per server per year? Or 3500 for the lifetime of the server?

[faizshah]

Here's how they word it on the informational page for Zing:

“Zing® is priced on a subscription basis per server (physical or virtual). With per-server pricing, you don’t need to worry about core counts, memory size, or number of instances deployed per server. The single license annual subscription price for Zing is $3500 USD per physical server, with significantly lower prices for higher volumes and longer-term subscriptions. Please contact us to learn about the special pricing available for start-ups and companies with $25 million or less in annual revenue, and for ISVs and manufacturers looking to embed/integrate Zing with their products.”

Seen here: https://www.azul.com/products/zing/