Moore’s Law And The Future Of Big Data
summary
Moore’s Law shifts from CPU frequency to whole‑server transistor abundance: commodity servers now offer 448 cores per server, NVMe with massive parallelism (hundreds of concurrent reads), and 24 TB RAM (384× since 2006). Many Big Data stacks and JVM heaps tuned for scarcity fail to scale (example: 640 GB Java heap causes tens‑of‑seconds GC pauses). Newer systems built for abundance claim concrete wins — e.g. Aerospike reports ~5× throughput, 5× lower resource use/cost and emissions — and legacy designs lose performance.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to Moore's Law
- 1:05CPU frequency plateau and transistor growth
- 3:11Hardware evolution from 2006 to 2022
- 7:30Programming in scarcity vs abundance era
- 10:40Shift from multi-threading to microservices
- 13:52Challenges with legacy applications
- 16:43Efficiency and resource optimization
- 18:10Aerospike’s performance advantage
- 19:35Future of hardware-efficient software
