These days with fast commodity networking, the economics of cloud services don’t resemble “commodity servers” circa early Hadoop at all

These days with fast commodity networking, the economics of cloud services don’t resemble “commodity servers” circa early Hadoop at all. The argument centers more on networks than servers, but anywho Eric Jonas and crew did tons of research about bottlenecks, throughput, failure rates, economics, etc. Instead of bringing your compute to the data, now bring your data to the compute. — https://blog.dominodatalab.com/themes-and-conferences-per-pacoid-episode-2/