alt Hacker NewsI often think about huge, fancy cloud setups literally costing silly money to run, being replaced by a single beast of a machine powered by a modern, high core count CPU (say 48+), lots of RAM and lots of high performance enterprise-grade SSD storage.
(Oftentimes part of the reason the huge, fancy cloud setup costs more is that any component can fail, all the way down to the region-level, without loss of service.)