Hardware Trends Shaping Software Performance
Hardware Trends Shaping Software Performance Technology evolves quickly, and software performance follows. Today, software teams work with more diverse devices: servers with many CPU cores, faster memory, and fast storage. They also gain access to GPUs, AI accelerators, and increasingly capable edge devices. Understanding these trends helps you design, test, and tune software that runs reliably and efficiently. CPU cores and parallelism matter. Modern processors deliver more cores and threads, which lets applications handle more work at the same time. But parallelism also brings complexity. A good strategy is to break work into independent tasks, use thread-safe approaches, and rely on parallel libraries. The payoff comes when data stays local to the cores that process it; otherwise, you pay in synchronization delays and cache misses. ...