Please Throw this Hardware at the Problem
We’re being told over and over that “throwing hardware at the problem” is not the correct solution for performance problems and a 2x faster server will not make our application twice as fast. Quite true, but there’s one thing that we can do very easily without emptying the piggy bank and won’t hurt for sure: buying more RAM.
The price for server-class RAM has dropped so dramatically that today you can buy a 16 GB module for around € 200.
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