Computing Performance 2022 - What's on the Horizon

Explore the future of computing performance in this 52-minute conference talk from SREcon22 APAC. Delve into the latest hardware and software components that SRE teams will need to manage, observe, monitor, and consider for capacity planning. Examine the current state of major technologies and upcoming performance improvements, including 3D stacked processors, cloud vendor CPUs, DDR5 and HBM memory, 3D Xpoint disks, QUIC and XDP networking, and lightweight VMs like Firecracker and Cloud Hypervisor. Gain insights into the cloud-based future of performance, featuring hardware hypervisors, custom processors, and enhanced observability. Learn about high-speed syscall-avoiding applications using eBPF, FPGAs, and io_uring, as well as AI-based auto-tuning. Discover expert opinions and predictions on improving performance, reducing latency, and meeting SLOs from a seasoned performance engineering professional.