How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale

Re:How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale by VHRanger on Thursday March 14, 2024 @09:57PM (#39711320)

Is there a reason there's comparatively little storage in your machines in relation to RAM or even CPUs?

Do your machines do compute heavy loads or something?

For a DB I'd expect a lot more storage per node

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Re:How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale by dijit on Friday March 15, 2024 @12:10AM (#39711992)

NVMe SSDs aren't so large unfortunately.

a 1U server has capacity for 8 drives, we used 2 slots for the OS (RAID1), 2 slots for the WAL volume (2 slots) leaving only 4 slots in RAID10.

So I'm already cheating a little and claiming WAL storage was part of total storage.

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Re:How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale by VHRanger on Friday March 15, 2024 @08:50AM (#39714937)

Shouldn't you try to get something with PCIe bifurcation in this case?

I doubt you're saturating the PCIe bus bandwidth on any of them?

I imagine your DB is extremely high performance, though!

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