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16GB of ram should be enough for anyone.

Edit, y'all don't get the reference: famous computer urban legend...

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/operating-syste...

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A joke about an ancient myth in our tech community is "off topic" - you guys are too stringent with this. I think it's lame.

The joke doesn't make any sense because the Bill Gates quote refers to personal computing, not development.

Just imagining the entirety of Google running on 16GB of RAM :).

To answer the question at hand though, MySQL seems great at up scaling with larger hardware, as does Redis (from what I've seen, it seems to almost get more efficient at sizes >500GB). MongoDB (my goto database) occasionally doesn't seem to scale very nicely off the bat, but after some configuration that too scales very well, possibly even better than MySQL.

MongoDB's In-Memory storage engine would be pretty sweet to try out with the X1 instance :)

Pretty sure every single person on HN gets the reference; it's just trite and doesn't add anything to the conversation.

Lighten up. You know what's funny - is that I have tons of friends in work, on multiple private slack groups and all over, guess what - we all joke.

That's what make us friends.

I'm not here to prove myself - I participate in the tech community here and it's like everyone like you just tries to put on some superiority complex and act like tech is ONLY serious business.

That's bullshit.

Get over yourself.

I've seen plenty of jokes that were good, relevant, and tasteful upvoted on HN. Do you think it is possible you are mistaken about the quality of yours?

It's 100% relevant to the tech community as nobody outside our community would get it off hand.

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