Computing Performance - On the Horizon

Explore the future of computing performance in this 41-minute USENIX LISA21 conference talk by Brendan Gregg. Delve into current and upcoming performance improvements across various technologies, including processors, memory, disks, networking, runtimes, hypervisors, and more. Gain insights into the incremental advancements in existing software and hardware, as well as predictions for groundbreaking technologies. Discover how the future of performance is shifting towards cloud-based solutions, featuring hardware hypervisors, custom processors, and comprehensive observability. Learn about high-speed applications that bypass system calls using technologies like BPF, FPGAs, and io_uring. The talk covers topics such as CPU processors, scaling strategies, future CPU and memory performance, disks, networking, runtimes, kernels, hypervisors, and observability, providing a comprehensive overview of the computing performance landscape on the horizon.