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Scale By The Bay 2019: Bryan Cantrill, Was He Wright All Along? Software After Moore's Law

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What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Highly recommend both.”

    Cantrill talk on software after Moore's Law.

    bitofhope, 2019-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?”

  2. “Bryan Cantrill has a great talk on this and the end of scaling”

    Cantrill talk on end of scaling and emerging architectures.

    SomaticPirate, 2020-06 · Recommendation · in “The Coming Chip Wars”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: bryan cantrill, moore's law, hardware architecture, systems software, scaling

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