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Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

The Morning Paper

After all, we’ve been doing that forever with the 2nd-level cache of ORMs , and it is highly encouraged in e.g. the AWS Lambda programming model — which was born on the cloud— to help mitigate function start-up times. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks. Who knew! ;).

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