Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Performance and Storage

Better Performance Through Caching

Kevin Closson, an authority on storage and performance, thinks well of Gear6, as he mentions at his blog here. There are several hardware solutions traditionally used when dealing with a performance problem:

  1. Throwing CPU at the problem. Rarely helps, plus the CPUs are made of silicon and tend to break when thrown at the problem.
  2. Throwing disks at the problem. Much louder than solution one, but only works if you were actually short on disk space, not just trying to throw something at the problem.
  3. Increasing caching. Okay, now we're getting somewhere. If you can cache more data AND design the application to make use of that cache you may actually improve things.
Gear6 helps you with adding caching to an existing system. Intriguing.
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