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What is the author of this article trying to say here?

>it appears that for both Facebook and Yahoo, those same clusters are unnecessary for many of the tasks which they’re handed. In the case of Facebook, most of the jobs engineers ask their clusters to perform are in the “megabyte to gigabyte” range (pdf), which means they could easily be handled on a single computer—even a laptop.

That facebook or yahoo could be run from a laptop?



It's specifically talking about analytics jobs, not the user-facing stuff.




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