Where computation happens - cloud, edge, and the strange new machines arriving behind them.
This is presented as a rivalry and it is really a placement decision. Four questions settle almost every case, and none of them are about which technology is more modern.
A useful quantum computer breaks some cryptography completely and barely inconveniences the rest. Knowing which is which turns a vague anxiety into a concrete, boring, entirely manageable migration project.
The debate is usually framed as ideology and decided in practice by four boring questions: where the data must live, how predictable your load is, how much you need to customise, and who is on call at 3am.
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