Yeah, I think this is a brilliant thing in part because it makes disaggregation of hardware infrastructure plausible for high-performance, high-scale data-intensive workloads. It also turns some deeply embedded assumptions about software design and architecture for things like databases completely on their head. This shift in hardware balance is probably the biggest change to fundamental assumptions in database architecture since SSDs started to become a thing, and most people haven't internalized the implications yet.

It is an fun time to be working in high-scale data systems.