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Only semi-related but nonetheless interesting:

Calling BS on people claiming to do big data. Ask them how big exactly their data is and then point out that it fits on one machine, so it's not "big". This is independent of their usage of Hadoop.



There's even a standard model for that kind of thing:

http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/...




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