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		paulmd on May 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoo... But we have millions of rows! -- my actual employer (the actual problem is our SAN is getting us a grand total of 10 iops. No, that's not wrong, 10. The "what the christ, just buy us a system that actually works" momentum has been building for 2 years now but hasn't managed to take over. Hardware comes out of a different budget than wasted time, yo.)

mirceal on May 24, 2018 | [–]

So you have big data. Now you just need the big hardware /s

candiodari on May 26, 2018 | [–]

A cynical person might point out that for empire-building managers the goals are :

1) minimize hardware spend at all costs

2) maximize lost time (if spent under the manager's control)

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