Still one of the best reads on computer memory and the importance of caches. https://t.co/DSosb5Ki2l

This great convenience and productivity booster also brings a whole new form of lock-in. Hybrid/multi-cloud setups, which seem to attract many architects' attention these days, are a good example of the kind of things you'll have to think of when dealing with lock-in. Let's say you have an application that you'd like to deploy to the cloud. Easy en... See more

intelligence is not defined by what a system stores or how it computes, but by what it can access and stage into use under constraints of cost, availability, and time. Storage is cheap. Computation is cheaper still. The real bottleneck—the hard part—is memory access. And where the cost is, intelligence is. ... What remains expensive—financially, te... See more