Episode 53 - Segfault E TOO MUCH COMPUTE

In this age of containers and virtualization, are we losing touch with hardware and the raw performance available to us?Kenneth chats to Kevin & Len about our current understanding of hardware performance and if it matters in this age of containers and virtualization.Spawned by an article on Non-uniform Memory Access in modern multi-CPU architectures, Kenneth realizes that it has been years since he racked up a server or cared about the bare metal at all. How disconnected has he become in the quest for only dealing with servers through API's?Some resources mentioned during the show:* NUMA Deep Dive Part 1: From UMA to NUMA - Approximate cost to access various caches and main memory - Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? - The Making of: ROM City Rampage (Retro City Rampage 8bit) - Scene.org Awards - How PayPal Scaled to Billions of Transactions Daily Using Just 8 VMs - The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought for $19 Billion - Reactions to the beer cache hierachy - Transatlantic ping faster than sending a pixel to the screen? - AMD unveils Radeon Pro SSG graphics card with up to 1TB of flash memory - Visual 6502 in JavaScript - finally our picksKevin:* Humanscale Float desk - Immutant - for listening!Stay in touch:* Website & newsletter - Socialize - & Suggestions and feedback -

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This episode was published on Sep 7, 2016.

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