[roncesvalles]

I think you feel that way because it's written more in a whitepaper tone instead of a blog article tone. If you're not deeply mired in distributed relational database systems, you likely won't get anything out of it.

It's not written like a "fable" as most technical blog articles that do well on HN tend to be. There is no great philosophical life-insight that the authors stumbled upon while doing this mundane technical thing.