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    “As the speed of CPU development slows we see a loss of the ability of the most powerful computers to outpace the request rate of hundreds of thousands of cheaper consumer devices had by clients.”

    I don’t buy that claim at all: http://blog.kubernetes.io/2015/11/one-million-requests-per-second-dependable-and-dynamic-distributed-systems-at-scale.html

    Furthermore, I am rather astonished that the author did not realize that the spelling is Merkle, not the same as the German chancellor.