drastic_fred

Wow! Less than 200qps per node, quite a redundancy. They also mentioned its read heavy. With aws dynamo db it would be at least 10 times cheaper for their given workload. Although, i do not know how much data they store and serve or how they are additionally (analytics?, etc) using this fleet for.

In a world, recommendations outpaced the full text search (95%/5%), cost reduction is essential.