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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Oct-2018 13:04:22 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   Looking at what people are doing with big data these days is a stark reminder that the mainframe days are back again. Or rather, the mainframe never went away. We just call them "the cloud" now. The computers that run VMs at Amazon, Google and Microsoft are nothing like home computers or the rack servers of yesteryear. They have far more cores and memory, and are being used for far bigger computational tasks.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Oct-2018 13:05:13 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      For a while, it looked like the humble personal computer would eradicate the need for "big" computers, but we just found bigger problems to solve instead.