This reminded me of Frank McSherry's article "Scalability! But at what COST?" (2015) - https://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/15/COST.html

This reminded me of Frank McSherry's article "Scalability! But at what COST?" (2015) - https://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/15/COST.html https://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01... Where he shows a single laptop beating a spark cluster.