• @x00z
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    183 hours ago

    “Our databases only store in RAM because I AM THE ELECTRICITY BATTERY MASTER”

    • @[email protected]
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      32 hours ago

      You save quite a lot of time when working on a database if it’s stored in RAM compared to tape, so it does make sense to use that technology

          • @[email protected]
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            112 minutes ago

            My use case is primarily real time data capture - raw log is written to disk and can be recovered from, although at that point we’d have fallen back on the secondary as primary would now be suspect.

          • @[email protected]
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            060 minutes ago

            At which point you have to slurp down a few hundred terabytes from the other datacenters when the power turns back on.

            This is why Google datacenter managers hesitate to turn off the power even when an employee is in the process of getting electrocuted.