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I read this book (End of Abundance in Tech) recently, and it resonated greatly with my thoughts. I have always been about optimization (not only database performance), and optimizing things gives me aesthetic pleasure. When it comes to databases, the most powerful optimization technique is reducing the number of round trips, and even when developers resist the change, I could always argue that supporting inefficient programming will inevitably become more expensive. Then, we all entered an epoch of Cloud computing, and it became so cheap to acquire more RAM and CPU that everyone (except for me) thought that KIWI (Killing It With Iron) would become a new norm and nobody would even need to optimize queries and processes. Why I didn’t believe it? Because I know that people are creative, and there is no iron that can’t be overcome by marketing analytics and other people who will forever keep us employed. And I was right! It didn’t take long for Cloud users to realize that IOPs are the most

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