Definitely several things we can learn from here. We have to do something similar, though we're still at a much smaller scale. That said, the wall'o'scaling is looming large and we're finding that even initial steps of building our own hardware is paying dividends.
I'm quite interested in the Disk I/O lesson's you've learned, specially when dealing with large amounts of RAM. We have to store large indexed data stores (NoSQL, usually Redis) for persisten, extremely high-speed access. A lot to learn here from what you did with SSD's to back that up, especially the lack of RAID.
Definitely several things we can learn from here. We have to do something similar, though we're still at a much smaller scale. That said, the wall'o'scaling is looming large and we're finding that even initial steps of building our own hardware is paying dividends.
I'm quite interested in the Disk I/O lesson's you've learned, specially when dealing with large amounts of RAM. We have to store large indexed data stores (NoSQL, usually Redis) for persisten, extremely high-speed access. A lot to learn here from what you did with SSD's to back that up, especially the lack of RAID.