{"id":2893,"date":"2011-07-21T13:32:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T12:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2011-07-21T13:32:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T12:32:01","slug":"re-architecting-for-the-cloud-and-lower-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/re-architecting-for-the-cloud-and-lower-costs.htm","title":{"rendered":"Re-architecting for the cloud and lower costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the presentations I saw at the recent London Cloud Camp (and again at \u00c2\u00a0Unvirtual) was Justin McCormack (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/justinmccormack\">@justinmccormack<\/a>)&#8217;s lightning talk on &#8220;re-architecting for the &#8216;green&#8217; cloud and lower costs&#8221; (is re-architecting a word? 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That&#8217;s because memory is fast and disk is slow.\u00c2\u00a0But with the advent of solid state devices we have something in between (that&#8217;s also low-power).<\/p>\n<p>Instead of writing apps to live in huge RAM caches, we can use less memory, and more flash drives. The model is \u00c2\u00a0not going to be suitable for all\u00c2\u00a0applications\u00c2\u00a0but it&#8217;s fine for &#8220;quite big data&#8221; &#8211; i.e. normal, medium latency applications. 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