https://www.scylladb.com/2019/12/12/how-scylla-scaled-to-one...

I like this one where they put a dataset on 80 machines only then for someone to put the same dataset on 1 Intel NUC and outperform in query time.

https://altinity.com/blog/2020-1-1-clickhouse-cost-efficienc...

Datasets never become big enough…

And we can have pretty fucking big single machines right now