I'm reminded of Joe Hellerstein's (and Oz Nova's summation of it, You Are Not Google [1] [2]) about even actual Big Data people getting their scale wrong and th

I'm reminded of Joe Hellerstein's (and Oz Nova's summation of it, You Are Not Google [1] [2]) about even actual Big Data people getting their scale wrong and thinking they're Google: The thing is there’s like 5 companies in the world that run jobs that big. For everybody else… you’re doing all this I/O for fault tolerance that you didn’t really need. People got kinda Google mania in the 2000s: “we’ll do everything the way Google does because we also run the world’s largest internet data service” [tilts head sideways and waits for laughter]. [1] https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576092