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Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive?
Two systems I know pretty well, Apache BookKeeper and Apache Kafka, were designed in the era of the spinning disk, the hard-drive or HDD. Hard-drives are good at sequential IO but not so good at random IO because of the relatively high seek times. No wonder then that both Kafka and BookKeeper were d
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| May 9, 2023 | Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive? by eatonphil | 163 | 174 |
