Hands-on technical analysis of a novel data platform for high-performance block I/O in the cloud, tested by Tanel Poder, a database consultant and a long-time computer performance nerd. Index Background and motivation Scalable Architecture by Design Enterprise Features Testing Results I/O Latency 1.3 Million IOPS Lessons Learned Summary Background and Motivation Back in 2021, my old friend Chris Buckel (@flashdba) asked me if I would like to test out the Silk Data Platform in the cloud and se...| tanelpoder.com
Over the course of the last few blog posts, we’ve looked at how an increasing number of database workloads are migrating to the cloud, how there is more than one path to get there… and …| flashdba
You may remember my previous article about high-performance I/O for cloud databases, where I tested out the Silk Platform and got a single Azure VM to do over 5 GB/s (gigaBytes/s) of I/O for my large database query workload. The magic was in using iSCSI over the switched cloud compute network to multiple “data VMs” at the virtualized storage layer for high I/O throughput and scalability. Well, the Silk folks are at it again and Chris Buckel (@flashdba) just sent me screenshots of similar ...| tanelpoder.com