As one of the co-founders of the Waffle Grid project, I beam with pride every time I get a stellar benchmark or every time I find a new use for the Waffle. But as a professional I still have to be critical of all solutions I would recommend or deploy. One of the big goals of Waffle Grid is to replace disk IO which should be slow with remote memory which should be much faster. But what happens when the disk is no longer slow? This leads me to ask myself, is Waffle Grid only good for servers with slower disk? Or is this a solution that can also help systems with fast disk? So which should you deploy SSD -vs- Waffle? Are they competitors? Or are they complementary technologies?

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