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Re:OnMetal: The Right Way To Scale by fleitz on Thursday June 19, 2014 @02:04PM (#7917416)
Yup, this is what I like about Docker (I'm sure there's some overhead as well), application isolation with out paying for it seriously in terms of performance.

That said you can pull a lot of performance out of a modern 2U server, 24 cores and 256 GB of RAM can be had pretty cheaply these days, pair it with 8 SSDs and you've got a real workhorse.

Even a traditional MySQL/Postgresql DB can maintain upwards of 140,000 tps on hardware like that.

Re:OnMetal: The Right Way To Scale by x0x0 on Thursday June 19, 2014 @02:54PM (#7917693)
And you can probably rack that for order $11k
Re:OnMetal: The Right Way To Scale by fleitz on Thursday June 19, 2014 @03:23PM (#7917829)
Or rent it from EC2 for a month.