Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

There is a trend in the industry where Apple, Amazon, Google and others are now designing their own CPUs and GPUs, and NVIDIA has added the ARM based Grace CPU to its Hopper GPU in its latest generation. I presented a keynote for Sun at Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix Arizona and included the slide shown below.

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Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

After all, we’ve been doing that forever with the 2nd-level cache of ORMs , and it is highly encouraged in e.g. the AWS Lambda programming model — which was born on the cloud— to help mitigate function start-up times. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks. Who knew! ;).

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Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Software today is not typically a single program—something that is executed by an operator or user, producing a result to that person—but rather a service : something that runs for the benefit of its consumers, a provider of value. The most common programming task in the world. Let’s dive into this concept for a bit.

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Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72