[nl]

Given than this is a paper for VLDB[1] (the conference on Very Large Databases) perhaps there is some small chance that your personal judgement of what is an insight or relevant is... wrong?

Also, your idea that it is a humble-brag to talk about a computer cluster at VLDB seems more indicative of a lack of knowledge on your part rather than a lack of "abstract insights".

Irrelevant bore indeed.

[1] http://www.vldb.org/2015/

[chimtim]

VLDB accepts 150 papers and SIGMOD perhaps another 150. This is just top tier. I am pretty sure science can live without about more than 50% of those papers.

I disagree with the tone of the original comment. But I do not disagree with the sentiment. Just having a large installation does not make it interesting. However, Google's large systems almost always push the boundaries of science -- MapReduce, GFS, Spanner, Distbelief and have been a joy to read.