Containers and Distributed Systems: Where They Came from and Where They’re Going
This was a lot of fun, one of the things that doesn't get much air time is that back in the early 2000's when "clusters" and "NUMA SMP machines" were competing with each other the big argument for large SMP iron was ACID compliant SQL databases like Oracle. Now that Google has implemented an ACID compliant SQL database across clusters it puts the final nail in the argument (for me at least) that "Some things only work on SMP machines"