The comparison of Azul to a mainframe is apt, since there is no low-end Azul box. If you don't have $50K to spend, go home. Startups can stop reading now.
The network-attached coprocessor idea doesn't give me a good feeling; it sounds like yet another point of failure.
Because Azul uses hundreds of cores, most apps won't scale out of the box; Azul-specific tuning like lock splitting is needed.
I want to like Azul but in the end it looks like a niche box.
The comparison of Azul to a mainframe is apt, since there is no low-end Azul box. If you don't have $50K to spend, go home. Startups can stop reading now.
The network-attached coprocessor idea doesn't give me a good feeling; it sounds like yet another point of failure.
Because Azul uses hundreds of cores, most apps won't scale out of the box; Azul-specific tuning like lock splitting is needed.
I want to like Azul but in the end it looks like a niche box.