This is an excellent solution to long latency tails, which become more and more noticeable at large scales. Here's a blog post discussing Google's experience wi

This is an excellent solution to long latency tails, which become more and more noticeable at large scales. Here's a blog post discussing Google's experience with it: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/3/12/google-taming-the-long-latency-tail-when-more-machines-equal.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/3/12/google-taming-the-... I expect it will be especially helpful for businesses analyzing data-- they can get useful results from massive datasets without massive hardware expenses.