Re:Available on Google Cloud: Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
by ztorkelson on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @04:26PM
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The benefits of persistent memory, as I understand it, are principally improved performance (higher throughput, lower latency) and secondarily ease of programming. (Edit: another obvious benefit is cost per gigabyte; this stuff is cheaper than RAM.)
The benefits of having access to that technology on GCP (or another cloud) are the usual: reduced operational burden, increased availability, flexible pricing structure, elastic scalability, etc.
Your question about pets vs cattle is a non sequitur. Nothing about this announcement or the underlying technologies are suggestive of how they should be used (or misused). It's just a new tool in the toolbox—and as a distributed systems engineer specializing in database technology, having easy access to this hardware at scale is extremely compelling.
The benefits of having access to that technology on GCP (or another cloud) are the usual: reduced operational burden, increased availability, flexible pricing structure, elastic scalability, etc.
Your question about pets vs cattle is a non sequitur. Nothing about this announcement or the underlying technologies are suggestive of how they should be used (or misused). It's just a new tool in the toolbox—and as a distributed systems engineer specializing in database technology, having easy access to this hardware at scale is extremely compelling.