> I highly doubt Google/Baidu will get into business of recognizing manufacturing defects in fidget spinners or analyzing sensory data

They will build platforms for:

- IoT - single robotic KIT/SDK, which allows you to easily install sensors and integrate data into rest of the platform

- Cloud ML - image recognition/models optimization - will allow to train model and detect defects from previous step by two mouse clicks

and take a lot of added value from small companies.

> Good news is that postgres is going to get multi-master replication soon in postgres 10

Where did you read this?..

I think the poster of that claim is confusing "plain" logical replication and multi-master replication. There's a lot of infrastructure in common between both, but the conflict resolution part of async mm didn't make it it into postgres 10...

It is a lawyer's fees industry's size, not a legal software industry's size..

Fair enough. I have no idea how industry sizes are calculated. I always think they are made up numbers anyway.

In any case, an industry where 1.3 million highly paid people work should be a worthwhile market to pursue.

Do lawyers usually send very detailed itemized bills?

Yes

Is this project free for commercial usage?

Yep.

But "datacenter systems" are only 170B out of 3.5T there..

It depends. You can store 4TB on single HDD, but reading and processing it can take many hours, so you may want big data stack to have your task paralleled.

In random cloud provider you may not get FS with compression on your machine..

Part of ecosystem. See how firebase today is integrated with analytics/ads.