I think that's unfair: A lot of people have attempted to solve these problems(), and the Windows Way™ has it's own problems. The real answer is probably between

I think that's unfair: A lot of people have attempted to solve these problems(), and the Windows Way™ has it's own problems. The real answer is probably between elastic infrastructure and the fact that computers got faster and cheaper, and so -- at least for a while the number of people needing solutions here went down. https://lwn.net/Articles/219954/ https://lwn.net/Articles/219954/ * https://lwn.net/Articles/223899/ https://lwn.net/Articles/223899/ * https://lwn.net/Articles/221913/ https://lwn.net/Articles/221913/ * https://lwn.net/Articles/316806/ https://lwn.net/Articles/316806/ * https://lwn.net/Articles/612038/ https://lwn.net/Articles/612038/ * https://lwn.net/Articles/671658/ https://lwn.net/Articles/671658/ * http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~vass/linux-aio.txt http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~vass/linux-aio.txt * http://ogris.de/howtos/splice.html http://ogris.de/howtos/splice.html And so on. However a few companies have seen real commercial benefit from actually analysing their data, so we're seeing a lot of "big data" interest. Some of these companies have noticed that a bunch of hadoop/mongo/whatever boxes can't even approach the performance of one "big" box tuned right, so we're seeing somewhat of a resurgence in interest here.