I am not a silver bullet kind of person, but I think this kind of technology plus things like Spark are potentially the holy grail. Ok, let me rephrase - I've

I am not a silver bullet kind of person, but I think this kind of technology plus things like Spark are potentially the holy grail. Ok, let me rephrase - I've often believed that there was a sort of "ultimate architecture" with distributed cluster computing, distributed programming frameworks, high-speed interconnect, and flash based storage. I think we are getting closer and closer each day. I wish I worked in R&D at any of the companies doing this fundamental research now - I have a feeling they have some amazing things cooked up behind closed doors.