This article explains how distributed storage, computing, and resource‑management technologies have evolved—from early Google File System research to Hadoop, Spark, and Kubernetes—enabling enterprises to tackle the 4 Vs of big data while reducing cost, improving performance, and supporting real‑time analytics.
This article chronicles notable technology milestones that occurred on October 28, including the births of Nokia founder Fredrik Idestam, microprocessor pioneer Ted Hoff, Microsoft co‑founder Bill Gates, game developer John Romero, as well as key events such as the launch of iFly voice input, the standardization of HTML5, and IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat.
The article analyzes the exponential growth of digital data and the resulting limits of traditional scaling in processors, memory, and interconnects, then surveys emerging technologies such as 3D stacking, new non‑volatile memories, PAM‑4 signaling, and optical links, highlighting opportunities for hardware designers to sustain computing performance.
The article reviews the accelerating data explosion and its impact on computing hardware, analyzes the limits of traditional scaling in logic, memory, and interconnect, and proposes specialized ICs, design reuse, 3‑D integration, new memory technologies, and optical interconnects as viable paths to sustain performance growth.
This article presents a comprehensive slide‑based overview of servers, covering their definition, hardware components, related technologies, and the software and applications that run on them, providing a solid foundation for anyone studying IT infrastructure.
This essay traces humanity's technological journey—from early agricultural and industrial revolutions through the rise of computing, cloud, and artificial intelligence—highlighting how demand, generalization, cost reduction, and safety shape each breakthrough and drive societal transformation.
From the agricultural revolution to the industrial age and now the AI era, this essay traces how societal needs drive technological breakthroughs, examines the stages of technology maturation—generalization, cost reduction, and safety—and explains how computing power, data, and cloud infrastructure enable the intelligent, scalable systems of today.
This article provides a comprehensive introduction to modern distributed systems, covering recent research trends, practical technologies such as Paxos, Consistent Hashing, MapReduce, Spark, various storage and computing paradigms, and offers guidance for beginners on how to navigate the field.
In his 2016 Future Forum keynote, Alibaba CTO Wang Jian likens the internet, data, and computing to fire, the discovery of new continents, and the steam engine, arguing they are transformative forces that reshape humanity, industry, and scientific progress.
