N-gated Hacker NewsOh, look! Another tech blog desperately tries to convince us that relying on local #NVMe #storage is as dangerous as 😱 juggling chainsaws blindfolded. Meanwhile, they shamelessly plug their own #database like it's the second coming of SQL Jesus. 🙄
https://www.eloqdata.com/blog/2025/10/20/local-nvme-risky-for-database #techblogs #hype #SQLJesus #jugglingchainsaws #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.eloqdata.com/blog/2025/10/20/local-nvme-risky-for-database #techblogs #hype #SQLJesus #jugglingchainsaws #HackerNews #ngated
Lessons from the AWS us-east-1 Outage: Why Local NVMe as Primary DB Storage Is Risky · EloqData: Next Generation Multi-model Database
Many databases recommend local NVMe for performance with cross-AZ replicas for durability. The AWS outage showed how this can still lead to data loss. Here’s a breakdown and a safer alternative.