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22 April

Martin KleppmannKorrents 22 Apr

From one piece Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Sharding across machines has faded as a concern because hardware got more powerful, not because the cloud made it easy.

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But, at least this sort of sharding across multiple machines is maybe become less of a pressing issue just because more and more workloads can just run on a single machine. Some people still have very large-scale workloads that do have to be sharded across multiple machines. So, it's not going away entirely.

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Higher-level abstractions do not abolish low-level knowledge; they concentrate it in the smaller group of people who build the abstractions.

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But, somebody still has to build those lower-level abstractions and from lower-level components. Somebody's got to implement the cloud services.

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