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HN recommends it as a history and analysis of the end of scaling from a well-regarded systems speaker, and lists it among the best talks of 2019.
Bryan Cantrill's Scale By The Bay 2019 talk on software after Moore's Law. He covers the end of easy scaling and the move toward specialized, emerging architectures.
“Bryan Cantrill has a great talk on this and the end of scaling” (HN, 2020)
This year's Cantrill talks include one on Ethical Dilemmas [0] and another on the "Moore's Law" paper [1]. Highly recommend both. [0] [link] [1] [this video]
Bryan Cantrill has a great talk on this and the end of scaling [this video] It really seems like we are going to see new architecture paradigms emerge and start seeing more powerful compute in smaller places.
Cantrill talk on end of scaling and emerging architectures.
Actually Moores law is dead. His prediction was not transistors would get smaller. His prediction was initial that for 10 years was that density would double every year. And then later that it would double every 18 month. And this held longer then even he thought. But it has ended. While things still get denser, its no longer on that same trend. This interview with Moore explains it: [link] History by Cantrill: [this video] David Patterson perspective: [link] Opposing point of view Jim Keller: [link] Patterson response to Keller: [link] There are talks by David Patterson, Jim Keller and
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