http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/15/COST.html http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/... "Rather than making yo

http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/15/COST.html http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/... "Rather than making your computation go faster, the systems introduce substantial overheads which can require large compute clusters just to bring under control. In many cases, you’d be better off running the same computation on your laptop." My limited experience fits this in that a bit of smarts on a single box beats a bunch of boxes. (the link is a very good read BTW)