Introducing Dynomite - Making Non-Distributed Databases, Distributed
medium.com/netflix-techblog/introducing-dynomite-making-non-distributed-databases-distributed-c7bce3d89404
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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
In the age of high scalability and big data, Dynomite’s design goal is to turn those single-server datastore solutions into peer-to-peer, linearly scalable, clustered systems while still preserving the native client/server protocols of the datastores, e.g., Redis protocol.