> Because in most cases, there's a better paradigm than MapReduce. You'd think so, right? But what happens to me all the time is I try to use "small-scale" to

> Because in most cases, there's a better paradigm than MapReduce. You'd think so, right? But what happens to me all the time is I try to use "small-scale" tools to handle some small problem, and then I find myself writing glue code that's already implemented in, say, Kafka Streams. So I might as well just run one Kafka broker locally and write a Kafka Streams application. Or the same with the Django ORM, which I reach for all the time just because I don't like writing database access code when I can write up some models and be done with it. Every time I reach for "small" tools I end up writing tons of code that's not actually solving my immediate problem or question.