My 5¢ is that 9P2000 protocol would be much better and canonical example. Also I hope some day one would show how to implement most of functionality of Hadoop

My 5¢ is that 9P2000 protocol would be much better and canonical example. Also I hope some day one would show how to implement most of functionality of Hadoop orders of magnitude more effeciently in bunch of Plan9 shell scripts. Or in Erlang with 9P protocol driver.