> There will _always_ be a pretty big gulf of capability between what you can do with a desk full of hardware at home vs a few racks of hardware in a datacenter

> There will _always_ be a pretty big gulf of capability between what you can do with a desk full of hardware at home vs a few racks of hardware in a datacenter True, but this difference _should_ shrink with the hardware craze and we're able to buy memory (the biggest bottleneck at the moment) again, shouldn't it?