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Many SSDs only write 4kb blocks, and writing a 64bit datapoint uncompressed to disk would not only be slow, but it would result in write amplification and wear out the disk sooner.…

There are some properties of the data that can be exploited to add weaker consistency guarantees. This leads to some desirable design trade-offs in terms of simplicity and performa…

That may be a perfectly good solution if you have a very static infrastructure and narrow use case. As a thought exercise, for the most trivial solution, you could create a single …