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To me the interesting difference with mainframes is that you were generally taking advantage of the extra processing power available on the mainframe. Whereas t
by lacker 5y ago
To me the interesting difference with mainframes is that you were generally taking advantage of the extra processing power available on the mainframe. Whereas this is more like taking advantage of the extra RAM available on the cloud machines. But yeah the spirit of it is very similar.
- agumonkey 5y agoThere is a recurrent pattern where systems are rebalanced where resources allow for 'more'. Centralized comes first because concentration obviously helps having more resources then market distributes capabilities (desktops/laptops). And now people are going the other way, maybe because local resources are not growing fast enough.