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		dave_ops on Nov 2, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: System design implications of declining network la... When I internalized this trend ~3 years ago, it's what spurred my interest in distributed storage systems across machines, racks, and datacenters, that are only memory backed.

mprovost on Nov 2, 2015 [–]

Any examples of such a system?

nostrademons on Nov 2, 2015 | [–]

All the major webscale systems - Google, Facebook, Microsoft's cloud services.

At a lower scale, there are also services like Hacker News, Plenty of Fish, and Mailinator that serve out of RAM on a single box.

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