Interesting to see the relationship between Naval Strategy and the move to distributed systems/microservices using commodity hardware.

Recent naval strategies emphasize distributed lethality, where various smaller and specialized ships work together, focusing on networking, communication, and flexibility.

The new vision of naval surface warfare that trades small numbers of very capable, high-value assets for large numbers of commoditized, simpler platforms that are more capable in the aggregate,” “the U.S. military has talked about the strategic importance of replacing ‘king’ and ‘queen’ pieces on the maritime chessboard with lots of ‘pawns.’”

-Fred Kennedy, TTO director