While a scale-out solution has traditionally been popular for MySQL, it’s interesting to see what room we now have to scale up – cheap memory, fast storage, better power efficiency. There certainly are a lot of options now – I’ve been meeting about a customer/week using Fusion-IO cards. One interesting choice I’ve seen people make however, is buying an SSD when they still have a lot of pages r
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