Hints at some interesting stuff but doesn't say too much outright. If Amazon claims databases are the way of the past, I'm not sure what the way of the future is. Hashtables stored in flash memory?

I agree. I really want more details.

According to the Conference page (http://www.google.com/events/scalability_seattle/ ), all sessions were videotaped and will be on YouTube or Google Video soon.

I hope those calls are heavily cached... 150 service calls per page doesn't sound too scalable.

Why does the number of calls make it non-scalable? Google search does thousands of RPCs and it seems to scale ok.

In the article it sounded more like "SOA gone wrong".

About time basic SQL databases are revealed to be the total scalability fraud they really are.