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Block storage can be network-abstracted.

Even virtual memory for that matter. Now ancient concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_shared_memory



Of course. Most production monoliths are deployed on networked block storage - aka SAN - and NUMA is already structurally distributed memory, even on a single box. But it's not the right paradigm to scale well, no more than chatty RPC that pretends the network doesn't exist is the right way to design a distributed system.




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