"Distributed systems" should die with the 2010s

> We can fit 3 exabytes of data inside a single server rack. You don’t need to distribute your data over 5 regions.

So the solution is to distrube to fewer racks or one rack?

Fewer racks - still a distributed system

one rack? - Single point of failure, hard to sell 99.99% uptime.

While I do agree using a less complicated system helps everyone, the idea of running in one physical location is not tenable for certain software (e.g. medical records)

I've architected, built and deployed three 99.99% systems using AWS, it really isn't that hard.