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Very nice, reminds me of a quote from this very related paper:

You can have a second computer once you’ve shown you know how to use the first one.

–Paul Barham

Scalability! But at what COST?

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos...

http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/02/...

Interesting it also involves graph processing, which Bane's comment did. The point is that distributed graph processing frameworks were mostly parallelizing their own overhead, not solving the problem, which could be done on a single machine!



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