Been saying that for years. Also, get this, 99.999% of companies do not need "big data" or distributed systems of any kind. I feel like the old "cheap commodity

Been saying that for years. Also, get this, 99.999% of companies do not need "big data" or distributed systems of any kind. I feel like the old "cheap commodity hardware" pendulum swung way too far. More expensive, less "commodity" hardware can often be cheaper, if correctly deployed. I.e. you don't need a distributed database if your database is below 1TB and QPS is reasonable (and what's "reasonable" can surprise you today with large NVME SSDs, hundreds of gigabytes of RAM, and 64-core machines being affordable).