I've worked at many enterprises that have done and do these very things. Some for fixed workloads at scale, some for data creation/use locality issues, some for

I've worked at many enterprises that have done and do these very things. Some for fixed workloads at scale, some for data creation/use locality issues, some for performance. I think there is about a 15 year knowledge gap in on-prem competence and what the newest shiniest is on prem for some people. Yes, some of the vendors and gear are VERY bad, but not all, and there's always eBPF :)