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Safe with relocation’ mode will allow us to eliminate dreaded ‘external fragmentation’ – which tends to cause quite a bit of trouble for long-running systems

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For a long while, I have been a strong proponent of message-passing mechanisms over mutex-based thread sync for concurrency purposes

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trying to optimize out a 3e-7 performance hit is very rarely worth the trouble.

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With 4S/4U boxes having typical MTBFs of 3–5 years, the next question we should ask ourselves, is “Hey, will we really be able to write software which crashes much more rarely than that?”

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it is DB which is usually The Bottleneck™ – it means that we’re saving this enormous amount of load, exactly where it really matters.

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as discussed above, the real-world task is always about scaling the whole system, including database; and in this regard Stateless-App-based systems exhibit significant problems.