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> I've come away from this experience with a fairly firm belief that the "Stateful Worker" model is genuinely inspired—I can now start to see how they could model virtually every data problem we face, and replacing almost every piece of infrastructure we currently use. That's potentially revolutionary, but only time and experience will tell whether it genuinely outperforms existing alternatives. But for our first foray, this was an unbridled success.