Re: [wlug] Is Open Source Innovation Now All About Vendor On-Ramps?

I wrote:

Or, you could build and run it on your own modest cluster, made from something like a bunch of Raspberry πs ...

Apropos this reader comment <https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/3363988>: BTW, performance of 200 Raspberry PI 3s has absolutely destroyed two full Cisco/NetApp all-SSD 40Gb/sec ACI racks on absolutely every business process by designing our software and system together. For large data processing, Map/Reduce is far better on 200 PIs each with an mSATA SSD than on any NetApp product we’ve seen.