http://stuartsierra.com/2008/04/17/disk-is-the-new-tape From programming to everything else Sun, 20 May 2012 10:06:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://stuartsierra.com/2008/04/17/disk-is-the-new-tape/comment-page-1#comment-44403 Functional Relational Programming with Cascalog « Another Word For It Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:39:31 +0000 http://stuartsierra.com/?p=146#comment-44403 [...] In the early aughts, Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat developed the MapReduce programming model at Google to optimize the process of ranking web pages. MapReduce works well for I/O-bound problems where the computation on each record is small but the number of records is large. It specifically addresses the performance characteristics of modern commodity hardware, especially “disk is the new tape.” [...] [...] In the early aughts, Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat developed the MapReduce programming model at Google to optimize the process of ranking web pages. MapReduce works well for I/O-bound problems where the computation on each record is small but the number of records is large. It specifically addresses the performance characteristics of modern commodity hardware, especially “disk is the new tape.” [...]

]]> http://stuartsierra.com/2008/04/17/disk-is-the-new-tape/comment-page-1#comment-42128 Disk is the new disk | /dev/rant Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:43:16 +0000 http://stuartsierra.com/?p=146#comment-42128 [...] “Disk is the new tape” [...] [...] “Disk is the new tape” [...]

]]> http://stuartsierra.com/2008/04/17/disk-is-the-new-tape/comment-page-1#comment-32132 Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Project Cassandra: Facebook's Open Source Alternative to Google BigTable Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:41:16 +0000 http://stuartsierra.com/?p=146#comment-32132 [...] to the system. How important is improving seek time when accessing data on a hard drive? It can make the difference between taking hours versus days to flush a hundred gigabytes of writes to a disk. Disk is the new [...] [...] to the system. How important is improving seek time when accessing data on a hard drive? It can make the difference between taking hours versus days to flush a hundred gigabytes of writes to a disk. Disk is the new [...]

]]> http://stuartsierra.com/2008/04/17/disk-is-the-new-tape/comment-page-1#comment-31913 Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Network Attached Memory: Terracota as an Alternative to Memcached Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:24:02 +0000 http://stuartsierra.com/?p=146#comment-31913 [...] it comes to scaling Web applications, every experienced Web architect eventually realizes that Disk is the New Tape. Getting data from off of the hard drive disk is slow compared to getting it from memory or from [...] [...] it comes to scaling Web applications, every experienced Web architect eventually realizes that Disk is the New Tape. Getting data from off of the hard drive disk is slow compared to getting it from memory or from [...]

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