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In-memory databases (ElastiCache)

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In-memory databases (ElastiCache)

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- I remember back in the 90s, and I do mean the 1990s, not the 1890s, like my children like to say now and then, but I remember in the 90s, there was this software program that came out for Windows 3.1, that said that it compressed data in RAM in order to increase the amount of memory that you had. Because it was so much faster to use the CPU to compress the data in RAM and then decompress it as you needed, so you could get more RAM, effectively, than your system had. Now, in that case, the only problem was that the program was a fraud. The company got sued and put out of business because it was proven that it didn't actually do anything at all. It just gave you these graphical meters that made it look like it was doing something, but the idea actually holds true. That stuff in RAM is faster than stuff that's not in RAM to access, read, and manipulate and utilize. What with databases, and the fact that many servers…

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