ASP.NET Core 2 High Performance - Second Edition

Scaling approach changes

For many years, the speed and processing capacity of computers increased at an exponential rate. The observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years is known as Moore's Law, named after Gordon Moore of Intel. Sadly, this era is no "Moore" (sorry). Although transistor density is still increasing, single-core processor speeds have flattened out, and these days increases in processing ability come from scaling out to multiple cores, multiple CPUs, and multiple machines (both virtual and physical). Multithreaded programming is no longer exotic; it is essential. Otherwise, you cannot hope to go beyond the capacity of a single core. Modern CPUs typically have ...