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They may design their own hardware, but their approach to scaling and fault tolerance is still the same: not a low number of fast and very expensive enterprise grade hardware that is unlikely to fail, but a huge fleet of servers that scale horizontally and that can tolerate the loss of a machine.

Which is the Mainframe vs commodity server dichotomy.



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