Testing the Silk Platform in 2024: Achieving 20 GiB/s I/O Throughput in a Single Cloud VM

Hands-on technical analysis of a novel data platform for high-performance block I/O in the cloud , tested by Tanel Poder , a database consultant and a long-time computer performance nerd. Index Background and motivation Scalable Architecture by Design Enterprise Features Testing Results I/O Latency 1.3 Million IOPS Lessons Learned Summary Background and Motivation Back in 2021, my old friend Chris…