Ben Thompson
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42,103 appearances
120 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're just getting database as a service from Amazon.
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And guess what?
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Amazon's probably powering Redshift with Graviton processors.
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Like so their cost to serve it is diminished because they're using much cheaper processors, and Graviton's gotten better and better over time.
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Time.
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So b but because they can abstract that away with especially with their platform stuff, they can have a sustainable cost advantage there.
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They also did a lot with networking.
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And they built this entire cop actually the first probably most important chip w was this co processor where
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W with a server, you have like a virtual machine.
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Like you have to actually run the the actual server.
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And then on top of that, you have all these virtual machines that appear as a computer to the client, but actually one chip, one computer is servicing hundreds or thousands of clients that are actually all sitting on top of it, all in their own little virtual machine.
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You need to actually run the computer though, and you need what's called a hypervisor to actually
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Actually, manage all those virtual machines.
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Amazon took all that off the main chip and had a a a side chip that basically handled all the networking and handled all the management of the system so that the big Intel chips that power that's why you had these Intel chips with tons and tons of cores.
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Cause you could, because all those one core could be dedicated to a particular virtual machine.
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Uh
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You could keep all that Intel expensive Intel chip capacity to run more hypervisor, run more virtual machines because you offloaded just sort of the janitorial aspects of the server to this other chip.
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And then it had all the network and all that sort of thing.
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It's called Nitro.
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So this gave them a sustainable cost advantage where Microsoft is offering an instance that runs.
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