What he's getting at is single level storage. Ram isn't used for loading data & working on it. Ram is cache. The size of your disk defines the "size" of your system.
This existed in Lisp and Smalltalk systems. Since there's no disk/running program split you don't have to serialize your data. You just pass around Lisp sexprs or Smalltalk code/ASTs. No more sucking your data from Postgres over a straw, or between microservices, or ...
These systems are magnitudes smaller and simpler than what we've built today. I'd love to see them exist again.
This existed in Lisp and Smalltalk systems. Since there's no disk/running program split you don't have to serialize your data. You just pass around Lisp sexprs or Smalltalk code/ASTs. No more sucking your data from Postgres over a straw, or between microservices, or ...
These systems are magnitudes smaller and simpler than what we've built today. I'd love to see them exist again.