Testing the Silk Platform in 2024: Achieving 20 GiB/s I/O Throughput in a Single Cloud VM | Tanel Poder Consulting

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Testing the Silk Platform in 2024: Achieving 20 GiB/s I/O Throughput in a Single Cloud VM | Tanel Poder Consulting

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 see how far I could push it. - Linux, Oracle, SQL performance tuning and troubleshooting - consulting & training.

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[nickpclarke]

Fantastic work! Such an astounding readout.

[tanelpoder]

Thanks!!!