Because nowadays you can get servers with about 192GB of RAM and 32 CPU cores. You can get servers with 2T of memory and 96 cores off the shelf for a few years

Because nowadays you can get servers with about 192GB of RAM and 32 CPU cores. You can get servers with 2T of memory and 96 cores off the shelf for a few years now. Real world workloads that you can't run on these boxes are few and far between. But everyone worries about "scalability" like they'll ever run into those limits.