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> the computer industry goes through a cycle of focus: disk, network, CPU - at any given time the currently 'hot' technology is targeting one of these hot spots
by ipdashc 4y ago
> the computer industry goes through a cycle of focus: disk, network, CPU - at any given time the currently 'hot' technology is targeting one of these hot spots
Which would you say we're in now?
- haimez 4y agoNetwork, and to a lesser extent: CPU (or more generally, compute) in large scale deployments as a result of possibilities enabled by networking. We’re calling this the cloud, but the first iteration of “the cloud” started with storage enabling efficient, reliable access of data storage being decoupled from individual nodes. Now we take that for granted- so maybe the current era is “all of the above, but storage started to feel like a solved problem”
- tharkun__ 4y agoWe’re calling this the cloud, but the first iteration of “the cloud” started with storage enabling efficient, reliable access of data storage being decoupled from individual nodes This is exactly what I dislike about all this "look, shiny, new" kind of thing. No, networked storage that is decoupled from compute nodes is not a cloud thing. Sure the cloud does that too. But data centers all over the globe used EMC^2 Symmetrix for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMC_Symmetrix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMC_Symmetrix
- indymike 4y agoThe novel part is selling it.
- djbusby 4y agoI think CPU is currently in GPU cycle, learning to use all those cores for cool stuff not just fog and magic hashes.
- doctor_eval 4y agoSSR makes me think we’re going back to doing everything on the server, after quite a few years focusing on the client. I think this might be the third go-around in my career.
- indymike 4y agoI suspect we're on the way back to the client, about the time we get cheap 128GB RAM SOCs.