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Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Storage and Retrieval

Coding Blocks

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Why It Matters for a Sequential?

If you're doing random acces and youre writing to random spots on disk, then thiy can basically leave little holes or tik about a kind of fragmentation. And if you're writing a lotof data, those holes eventually need to be cleaned up. So that made sense to me as to why sequential was really important there. But as sid is, always kind ofslike, thought of them as basically being like, similar to ram.

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