Modern infrastructure made waste too easy. Resource limits that started as temporary safety buffers can harden into requirements unless teams keep asking what the system is actually doing.
Imagine telling a 1981 programmer who was fitting an entire chess engine into 1KB RAM that 40 years in the future every application will ship with its own 250MB operating system to run in a container orchestrator which is running in a virtual machine.
At least we did something useful with Moore’s Law.
Imagine telling a 1981 programmer who was fitting an entire chess engine into 1KB RAM that 40 years in the future every application will ship with its own 250MB operating system to run in a container orchestrator which is running in a virtual machine.
At least we did something useful with Moore’s Law.
Moore’s law hit the ceiling. We’re only keeping up because there’s an array of gas turbines running without permits in towns with low water pressure.