> Yes, hardware has limits and you just cannot have a single machine with unlimited number of cores and disks. Many services will not even approach the point

> Yes, hardware has limits and you just cannot have a single machine with unlimited number of cores and disks. Many services will not even approach the point where "unlimited cores and disks" becomes a concern. > So let's just accept that we should think things differently in 2022. Distributed RDBMS is already a thing, used in production, in many companies. I do not accept that. Why would I take a critical piece of infrastructure and layer on distributed systems problems if I don't absolutely have to?