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> today memory (and disk space) are abundant.

It still has a cost though, which needs to be taken into account in many situations. At our company the cost of compute, RAM, and storage are some of the biggest ongoing concerns, which can make the difference between profitability and bankruptcy, and we’ve done a lot of work on it.





Especially in the cloud, where RAM is extremely expensive, and you're encouraged to go for very ram-inefficient horizontal scaling architectures.



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