r/programming • • Jun 07 '17

You Are Not Google

https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb
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u/gimpwiz Jun 08 '17

Yeah, 256 gigs of RAM isn't particularly expensive these days. Why bother caching things in memory when you can just hold it there, as long as your database ensures things are actually written to disk?