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Re:Millennials and Mainframes: How to Bridge the Gap by syn0byte on Thursday September 13, 2018 @02:46PM (#17981231)
They DO horizontally scale, just not very cheaply. Reliability above all else is their advantage. There is an entire internet between you and a "5 9s" cloud provider that can screw you.

side note; I HATE the trend in the level of abstraction away from hardware. Seems about as short sighted as GP doctors abstracting away human anatomy. They mostly treat illnesses and proscribe medication; why should they need to know the names of bones in a human body? There are orthopedic specialists for that!

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Re:Millennials and Mainframes: How to Bridge the Gap by BookmarkSaver on Thursday September 13, 2018 @07:23PM (#17983587)
People are only capable of so much, mentally. As the world is increasingly well understood, it gets increasingly complicated, and individuals require ways to interact with the parts that they don't have time to truly understand.
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