Over the past two decades, technological advancements have rapidly transformed computation power, web server efficiency, memory capacity, and storage capabilities. Modern CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs have significantly sped up numerical computations, while web servers now benefit from refined programming languages and more efficient hardware. RAM and hard disk sizes have dramatically increased, and SSDs provide unparalleled transaction speeds and reliability. These improvements allow for vastly different and more efficient system designs than those used in the early 2000s.
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Computation is 200,000x faster than 20 years agoWeb servers are at least 100x fasterRAM is 16x to 750x biggerHard disks are about 100x biggerSSDs can do 10,000x more transactions per secondSSDs (mostly) don’t dieThe “c10k” problem is now the “c10000k” problemWelcome to the futureSort: