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by mark_l_watson 4000 days ago
Good to see Robin Harris' article on the front page of HN (we live in the same small town and a mutual friend introduced us).

A little off topic from the article: I think the biggest tipping point is the decreasing cost of cloud storage because large companies like Google do so much of their time critical processing with data in RAM (spread over many servers) and these servers can re-purpose a lot of their disk I/O capability to service low cost cloud storage.
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dikaiosune 4000 days ago
Can't believe I've seen two people from there on the same day on HN! Flabbergasted. Grew up there, currently living just up the rim.

Re: your comment, I'm curious to see how the I/O capacity of those servers could be distributed for cloud storage. I would imagine that even with 10Gbps if those machines are really cranking, they could have a difficult time provisioning network I/O for a storage service.

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mark_l_watson 4000 days ago
Email me when you will be in Sedona and we can have coffee. I can contact Robin to see if he is available.

re: I/O capacity: I was commenting on how Google, etc. can provide such inexpensive cloud storage, not access speed.

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