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		dzdt on Aug 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The end of Optane is bad news Optane by itself wasn't a product that acted as a solution to real-world problems. It needed to be incorporated into a larger stack.

Shorel on Aug 2, 2022 | [–]

It needed a database engine to take advantage of it.

threeseed on Aug 2, 2022 | [–]

Persistent memory though is a solution to a very common problem.

Especially for anything distributed you want that metadata to be super fast but also durable.

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