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Velocity 2011: Artur Bergman, "Artur on SSD's"

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  • Presented by Artur Bergman, VP of Engineering and Operations at Wikia
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  • An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Artur Bergman argues passionately and bluntly that servers should replace spinning hard drives with solid-state drives to eliminate performance bottlenecks.

Artur Bergman (Wikia/Fastly), Artur Bergman, hacker and technologist at-large, is the VP of Engineering and Operations at Wikia. He provides the technical backbone necessary for Wikia's mission to compile and index the world's knowledge. He is also an enthusiastic apologist for federated identity and a board member of the OpenID Foundation. In past lives, he's built high volume financial trading systems, re-implemented Perl 5's threading system, wrote djabberd, managed LiveJournal's engineering team, and served as operations architect at Six Apart. His current interests extend to encompass semantic search, large scale infrastructure, open source development, federated instant messaging, neurotransmitters, and the future of cyborgs.

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What people say. Recommended for its memorable and blunt argument that SSDs should replace spinning disks in servers.

justizinon Hacker News • Recommends

On “1-2 year SSD wear on build boxes has been minimal”

…ut 100k-200k databases per shard. We wore the _fuck_ out of some SSDs. You should replace your HDDs with SSDs, though, for a number of reasons, and take the long view, as kryptistk noted the OP is doing. Really compare the cost of SAS 15k drives and Intel 320s or 530s. But I think in his place, you can take the words of the inimitable Mr. Bergman: link to this video Stop wasting your life. But don't expect a machine that does lots of random IO, like a database, to have 1-2% SSD wear after two years. It might not last two years. If it does, use it more. Aren't you making money with these drives? ;)…
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bengl3rton Hacker News • Mentions

On “Think twice about that F-bomb in your next talk”

Come on, now. Would this "Artur on SSDs" video be nearly as memorable (and therefore efficacious) without all the swearing? link to this video
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neilkon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Understanding database normalisation: a very short tutorial”

…st don't understand basic relational concepts, or why they were invented in the first place. It's kinda sad. I've consulted on projects where people implemented sharding before adding any indices to MySQL. The thing about being in group (1) is that you can also recognize when the ground shifts beneath your feet. Artur Bergman is one of those guys. link to this video…
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failwhalesharkon Hacker News • Mentions

On “The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9”

link to this video link The memory hierarchy of a modern CPU with spinning rust might as well be the Parker Solar Probe waiting on a sea anemone. I am remiss how someone these days can buy a laptop with spinning rust and 4 GiB and then complain it's "slow." Maybe they should've bought a real laptop for real work that's repairable and upgradable?
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