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I feel like this topic was covered better by Stonebraker :p https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~billhowe/mapreduce_a_major_step_backwards.html https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~billhowe/mapreduce_a_major_... In the late 90s/early 00s Eric Brewer also wrote a bunch of papers about his experiences scaling stateful systems at Inktomi. The most famous one is probably the one that introduced/codified the CAP theorem: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5015/8bc1a8a67295ab7bce0550886a9859000dc2.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5015/8bc1a8a67295ab7bce0550...