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> # If you can fit your problem in memory, it’s probably trivial.

A popular fallacy among some distributed systems engineers.

It's not at all trivial, it's just in a complementary domain of problems to be tackled. The fallacy easily leads to a situation where you need a 100-cluster machine to do the work that proper optimization would let you do on a single machine.



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