Scale By The Bay 2019: Bryan Cantrill, Was He Wright All Along? Software After Moore's Law

Bryan Cantrill discusses the history and end of Moore's Law, and how software must adapt to specialized hardware architectures.

This talk video is a node in devreal.ai, the developer community graph. It connects to: Talk: Scale By The Bay 2019: Bryan Cantrill, Was He Wright All Along? Software After Moore's Law — devreal.ai/t/2019-scale-bay-2019-bryan-cantrill-was-he-wrigh… Interview: Scale By The Bay 2019: Bryan Cantrill Interview — devreal.ai/t/2019-scale-bay-2019-bryan-cantrill-interview-sc… Speaker: Bryan Cantrill — devreal.ai/n/bryan-cantrill Company: Joyent — devreal.ai/c/joyent Event: Scale by the Bay — devreal.ai/e/2019-scale-by-the-bay-conference Explore these connections and related videos, photos, speakers’ blogs and podcasts, and other By the Bay networks. ----- Moore's Law is indisputably ending -- but what was it even in the first place? In particular, can the phenomenon we think of as Moore's Law actually be better explained by Theodore Wright in a 1936 paper on aircraft economics? If so, could Wright's Law continue to apply as Moore's Law ends? More generally, what are the ramifications for software as silicon-based microprocessors reach their physical limitations? In this talk, we will explore the end of Moore's Law, the prospects for Wright's Law in microprocessors, and what it all means for those of us who build software systems.