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I attended P99CONF and if anything I'm even more interested in serverless databases (I watched a talk by the SlateDB folks - though I was already aware of them).
Also had two reminders that modern hardware is much better than older hardware even if comparing clock speeds doesn't make it clear: - I encoded the same video with a 6 Core 12th generation i5 with AVX2 in almost the exact time as an 20-core dual Ivy Bridge 2470v2 machine which lacks AVX2. Clock speed is one thing, but CPU features are another (never mind power draw!) - I'm not getting the speed I expect from my 10G NICs and it looks like it's because I have a mix of PCIe generations among my machines (even back to 1st gen on my file server) and that x8 slots are actually only being served by 4 lanes. The modern machine mentioned above has PCIe 4.0 and it's not even fancy; just newer.
This will probably lead to me powering down my file serving duties from a 6-disk multi-pool ZFS set up which can't saturate 10G and is drawing too much to just a single SATA drive + the NVMe in box -- the modern machine. All of the data is backed up elsewhere or it is itself a backup so running 1x isn't a giant concern for me.
(The older generation machine does have great deal of RAM though, so when the right memory-bound workload comes along it'll go back into active use).