Does it scale? Who cares (2011)

Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by ne01 on Sunday April 09, 2017 @01:15PM (#14073276)

I know Basecamp uses a server with 2TB of RAM for their single MySQL server. FYI CTO of Basecamp is the creator of Ruby on Rails -- smart people.

Checkout stack overflow stack too.

Their system is faster too.

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Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by developer2 on Monday April 10, 2017 @04:59PM (#14082501)

That is actually insane. The day their MySQL cluster experiences a severe downtime incident, it is likely going to take an enormous amount of time to recover.

That is my intuition. If you know of a video or blog post (conference, talk, article, etc.) where someone explains the benefits of a 2 TB MySQL server and how it is not a crazy bad idea, I would love to see it. Because my 15 years of professional experience screams "NO WAY IN HELL" at that one.

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