[rasz]

This comes to mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31496063

>At Google we were told to stop thinking about all this stuff, that the storage hardware and software people were responsible for hiding things like wearout from application developers.

Something tells me this team was told to "stop thinking about all this stuff, that the network people were responsible for hiding things like speed, latency and cost from application developers." aka network is infinite, keep pounding that repo and we will scale accordingly (our side of the equation, sucks to be other people)