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James Hamilton of AWS fame touched on this in 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfjFHa5wY0E). He has a thesis that servers will move towards single board PCBs similar to how mobile devices. This feels like the first step in that direction so look forward to seeing what's next.

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A long time ago when I was at Basho we had a project with a major storage vendor to basically turn hard disks into individual Riak database nodes, so that all the scaling, redundancy, rebalancing, etc. would be pushed up to the network and database layer.

I don’t think it was ever commercialized though.

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