How do your applications persist data? If you're running a compute resource today there's very likely a TCP connection between your application and your data so

How do your applications persist data? If you're running a compute resource today there's very likely a TCP connection between your application and your data somewhere. Also, in things like kube, it's possible to schedule jobs next to each other so your TCP connection is essentially going over localhost. There are many tricks you can do to have this even out perform a single process application.