I did introduce Queued Writes[1] since that talk, allowing you to trade off performance versus immediate durability. It may interest you -- network is much less of a factor then, and you should get a 10-100x increase in throughput.
[1] https://rqlite.io/docs/api/queued-writes/
Otherwise, if you try with more modern networks and disks, let me know what you see.
I did introduce Queued Writes[1] since that talk, allowing you to trade off performance versus immediate durability. It may interest you -- network is much less of a factor then, and you should get a 10-100x increase in throughput.
[1] https://rqlite.io/docs/api/queued-writes/