You’re making a really vague meta point here. Yes I do agree that scaling horizontally has is presently more economical than scaling vertically. But that has al

You’re making a really vague meta point here. Yes I do agree that scaling horizontally has is presently more economical than scaling vertically. But that has also been true for years — for about as long as x86 servers have been around. So even longer than you’re original argument about virtualisation. Furthermore you don’t really need any distributed layer to achieve that either. In the early days I used to manage fleets of x86 bare metal servers with little more than a few shells scripts I hastily cobbled together. Saying “infrastructure needs to scale” is such a generalised truism that it doesn’t really contribute anything to the discussion. And the way how Plan 9 manages scale vastly different to how Docker, VMWare and other solutions manage scale. I do get the general point you’re making. I honestly do. But as I said in my initial post, it’s not a new trend nor emerging trend like you claimed. It’s already been the industry norm for the lifetime of most engineers careers. So the real crux of our disagreement isn’t about technology nor whether infrastructure at scale is even needed, it’s the timeline you suggested. You’re out by a couple of decades — so far out that entire architectural designs to solve these problems have come and gone.