> To be clear, the above specs would be pointless for most databases, as almost nothing scales to handle this kind of hardware well — and almost nobody tries.
That strikes me as the more interesting takeaway sentence.
It's not that much RAM if you think of it as 24 8-core machines.
That strikes me as the more interesting takeaway sentence.
It's not that much RAM if you think of it as 24 8-core machines.