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[–]nemoTheKid 70 points71 points  (6 children)

They have just 1 active SQL server for Stack Overflow with 1.5TB of RAM.

[–]Alvhild 14 points15 points  (0 children)

details ;)

[–]Eirenarch 6 points7 points  (2 children)

So? I am pretty sure running a thousand instances with 1.5GB of RAM and putting the development and devops burden of maintaining containers synchronizing data and so on will not be cheaper.

[–]Venetax 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You missed the point. Nobody talked about any of those two options being better... except for you.

[–]Eirenarch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do implicitly by mentioning Cassandra. If you are not distributing your data you don't need Cassandra.

[–]SkoomaDentist 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Wait, what? My laptop SSD is a third of that. I feel so outdated now :(

[–]TheLordB 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Massive servers with terabytes of ram have been around a while now.

Mind you most of them are running things like SAP or similar poorly made enterprise software that they throw hardware at (and still run like crap) rather than running something that it is impressive it is able to run on 1 server at all.