Welcome to the Jungle

Welcome to the Jungle, which you can read here , is an article that talks about how we are actually exploring different possibilities for solving the Moore's Law is ending! problem. Yes, you heard it correctly, some people, as a matter of facts, a lot of experts in the field believe that Moore's Law is hitting a ceiling soon. Really soon. Computer hardware is not going to get any faster, at least in terms of number of transistors within a chip as we have thoroughly discussed before in this blog. But what people don't actually know, is that Moore's Law doesn't measure the actual number of transistors or speed in a chip set, It actually measures the overall performance of a computer chip set, which yes, it does get at least doubled  every two to three years.  The possibilities that people are actually creating for us to use are amazing, HaaS services are enabling nearly half of today's IT infrastructures all around the world - and the organizations that are not there yet are investing millions of dollars in reaching that state -, and really HaaS and every other XaaS (any as a Service) model solves something really simple: elasticity, availability, self - service. I'm not saying that implementing solutions, like the solutions that the Linux community is empowering and creating all over the world is easy, but actually using it is super simple. For example, before this decade if you wanted to have a server with some database application running in there you had you follow this next recipe: You had to have a server first, or a VM in which you could host the applications that you wanted to run, you had to have enough CPU resources to run them, and you had to have a team of IT professionals that knew how to manage this kind of applications - Yes, in your computer is super simple to install a MySQL server or an Oracle Database, but in headless servers, and specially when dealing with clusters or things like that, it might get really tricky, specially if you don't really know where to look - so you absolutely needed this guys. Now a days, You login to amazon, click for a resource with a MySQL hosted, and link it to a Heroku Api for you to consume through your private infra VM's. The game has changed a lot. In terms of computing power, you could ask for more power with just a couple of clicks away. You could loose power with a couple of clicks too. Really the game has changed with cloud technologies, but to use the whole power of this XaaS capabilites, you have to know how to actually use the resources that you're asking for, if not, you're just throwing your money in the trash can.

Diego.

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