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0 pointsarandomhuman6mo ago0 comments

so it's a "bare metal" virtual machine? Or are they actually using the bare metal offerings for the cloud provider?

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Still in virtual machines, but ones with local NVMe drives rather than network-attached storage (EBS, Persistent Disk). This means incredible I/O performance.

https://planetscale.com/blog/benchmarking-postgres

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0 pointsarandomhuman6mo ago0 comments

so it's a "bare metal" virtual machine? Or are they actually using the bare metal offerings for the cloud provider?

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bddicken6mo ago

Still in virtual machines, but ones with local NVMe drives rather than network-attached storage (EBS, Persistent Disk). This means incredible I/O performance.

https://planetscale.com/blog/benchmarking-postgres

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