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

11K views · Dec 8, 2019 · 32:35 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2019–2023

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 points people here: 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 has a great talk on this and the end of scaling”HN comment, 2020

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Strongly recommendsbitofhopeDec 2019

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Cantrill talk on software after Moore's Law.

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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

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

Cantrill talk on end of scaling and emerging architectures.

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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.

Cites itpanick21_Mar 2023

“History by Cantrill”

Historical account of Moore's Law by Cantrill.

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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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