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At the centre Higher-level abstractions do not abolish low-level knowledge; they concentrate it in the smaller group of people who build the abstractions. Holds MKMartin Kleppmann Read this korrent →

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• Same subject: the cloud Sharding across machines has faded as a concern because hardware got more powerful, not because the cloud made it easy. Holds MKMartin Kleppmann
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