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November 4, 2013
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Soundcloud’s “VP of Engineering” about using SSDs

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Excellent [german] statement from Alexander Grosse (Soundcloud’s Vice President of Engineering) about using SSDs for the main application (music data is served via Amazon EC2/S3 afaik, not via SSDs), heard at “Wie Soundcloud skaliert” (How Soundcloud scales), Berlin Expert Days 2013:

 

Unsere SSDs zucken nichtmal. Die dümpeln bei 10% load vor sich hin…

[english translation] Our SSDs don’t even give a damn. They are at 10% load all the time…

 

And this is not a casual high-traffic site, this is Soundcloud ! More highly interesting stuff and deep insights into the front- and backend of one of the largest and most existing websites on the planet in Soundcloud’s awesome developer blog. And yes, they really use MySQL… ;)

http://backstage.soundcloud.com/

 

By the way, Soundcloud is hiring!

http://soundcloud.com/jobs

 

This article was written quite a while ago (9 years), please keep this in mind when using the information written here. Links, code and commands might be outdated or broken.

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