From the article: “Huge machine - 8 CPUs, 16 GB of memory”
That’s barely more than a raspberry pi? (4 vs 8 cores) Huge machines today have 20+ TBs of RAM and hundreds of cores. Even top-end consumer machines can have 512GB of RAM!
I do agree with the author that single machines can scale far beyond what most orgs / companies need, but I think they may be underestimating how far that goes by orders-of-magnitude
That’s barely more than a raspberry pi? (4 vs 8 cores) Huge machines today have 20+ TBs of RAM and hundreds of cores. Even top-end consumer machines can have 512GB of RAM!
I do agree with the author that single machines can scale far beyond what most orgs / companies need, but I think they may be underestimating how far that goes by orders-of-magnitude