Nate Silver trolled the internet last week with an inane tweet about the putative stagnation in the pace of innovation -- and @ahl and I are apparently incapable of not spending an episode discussing it. Join us, 5p Pacific today!
@bcantrill@ahl Damn, now I wish I was there for yesterday's program so I could participate in the chat. Unfortunately, I was a guest on a different live audio program at the same time.
@bcantrill@ahl You talked about horizontal scaling. But I think it's also worth noting one hardware innovation that made horizontal scaling unnecessary in many cases, that we're perhaps starting to take for granted: fast, high-capacity flash storage, a.k.a. SSDs. David Heinemeier Hansson said in a RailsConf keynote several years ago that the Basecamp team never actually had to shard their DB thanks to SSDs.
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