Memory Is the Biggest Problem in Software Right Now
Introduction
Republished with permission by Devansh, writer of AI Made Simple. For decades, progress in the tech industry has been framed as a compute problem. Faster CPUs, more cores, bigger clusters. But across databases, distributed systems, streaming pipelines, and now AI, a quieter constraint has been tightening: where state lives, how fast it can be accessed, and how often it has to be rebuilt.