Your points are all valid, but I don't think it's the "unquestioned" way. It simply happens to be great way to scale, and also to isolate complexity etc. You ca

Your points are all valid, but I don't think it's the "unquestioned" way. It simply happens to be great way to scale, and also to isolate complexity etc. You can scale to monster loads this way, they way that in-process caches don't.