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Re:New Project: ZGC – “Z Garbage Collector” for Java by dkersten on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @08:28PM (#15555451)
Analytics jobs, some database use cases, machine learning, simulation... plenty of things could make use of huge heaps.
Re:New Project: ZGC – “Z Garbage Collector” for Java by ksec on Thursday October 26, 2017 @06:48AM (#15557742)
And TB memory is merely enough for lots these use case. We can now skip a lot of complicated scaling issues with merely a few boxes.

The problem is memory price / GB not only hasn't gone down but goes up.