Does anyone else marvel at data throughputs nowadays? People talk about 5GB/s NVME cards as being "slow." Same with Internet speeds. It's unreal the progress that we've made (and continue to make.)
1. Teams will use a shared, Windows systemwide Blink-based WebView2-based host instead of using its own private Electron environment.
2. The Teams' UI is changing from Angular to ReactJS.
So Teams will remain a modern-day HTA, for better or for worse, but sourcing from my own experiences working with Angular, ReactJS, and MS's WebView2 vs. Electron, I'm not convinced any of these changes will substantially benefit the end-user experience except perhaps a modest reduction in memory-usage attributed to using WebView2 instead of Electron.
[1]: https://blog.thoughtstuff.co.uk/2021/08/stop-saying-microsof...
Microsoft doesn't hire FTE SEs on the basis of their knowledge of a single platform or library - anyone who is good-enough overall will be able to familiarize themselves with Angular - or React - or any other framework, platform, or entire paradigm - that's how the industry works.
Employing people for knowledge with a specific library or platform can, and does, make sense, but only in a situation where a company needs a consultant or contractor(s) to make changes to an existing product for a short contract and then, poof, they no-longer work at the company.
While Microsoft does hire plenty of contractor staff (orange-badges, "v-dash trash", etc), only a minority of them are involved in product development, and an even tinier number of those are employed in any kind of consultancy role (which makes sense, considering that Microsoft almost entirely uses only its own platforms, frameworks and libraries for its consumer-facing products) - so the fact that Microsoft swallowed its pride and adopted Electron, Angular, React, Blink/Chromium in recent years marks a significant shift in the company's ideology (for want of a better word). No-one would have predicted this even as late as 2015.
It’s laziness, but it’s cost effective laziness.
Obviously there are situations when you have to employ more rigor and do the FEA, but typically, when choosing between a just-right solution and one that's obviously strong enough, just overbuilding it is a lot more efficient in terms of value.
With 21 of the pictured $150 Samsung 1TB 990 Pro SSDs and, hypothetically, $1000 for this card, you're looking at $4,150 for this storage solution. If that solves your problem and lets you apply off-the-shelf Postgres and JSON and unoptimized queries, do it! That money only buys a handful of site visits and maybe a week of engineering hours to change a system that may involve dozens of users, tens or hundreds of thousands of lines of code, and rigid requirements from upstream and downstream...maybe you can change those eventually, and it would definitely have been cheaper if all the stakeholders had a fundamental understanding of the compute requirements of full table scans and non-native blobs and designed their business around those mathematics, but that doesn't sound likely.
Gigabit fibre to the home, NVMe that is way faster than RAM was not that long ago, CPUs in phones that make old desktops look like toasters.
The disconnect is that the numbers feel huge in comparison, and what my computer can do for me really, is not hugely different.
Citation?
Consumer PCIe 5.0 ssds will in some cases likely surpass that.
https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-st...
> Sequential read/write speeds up to 7,450/6,900 MB/s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR2_SDRAM
Lists DDR2-400 capable of 3200 MB/s of throughput.
Endurance may surprise you, but then again - I haven't paid much attention to newer (cheaper/weaker/more dense) NAND types
Now Optane on the other hand...
I'm in the us, pay $100 a month to get 5 mbit dsl. This is not in a big city though, 20 miles outside of a city, next to a highway. There's fiber that runs by the street at the small subdivision this is in, kind of in the woods. The company that owns it refuses to connect us to fiber, instead preferring to put 100 homes on 5mbit dsl at far more profit. There's one big commerical user that paid for the fiber. This is the story of the us of course, I'm not unique. A family member lives on the other side of the country, he's closer to a big city but has the same problem.
Two or three years later another mentor hired me to put a 33 MB hard disk into his IBM PC. Not a clone. My memory tells me it was a DOS imposed limit, those 33 MB: the biggest drive available. I managed to plug the connector in upside down and released the magic smoke. That was a many-hundreds-of-dollars mistake. (And a good lesson in patient mentoring.)
In 1991 I obtained a used 80 MB drive (half height!) to put into my own PC XT clone, via a local Usenet group. I set the volume name to $1_PER_MB because going under that threshold was so impressive.
Those are my reference points for storage.
Hah! Too funny, my own personal memory for 'cheap' storage was keeping an eye on the Fry's print ads in the Sunday newspaper while saving all my allowance and summer job money, finally buying the outrageously large 200GB HDD for a mere $1 a gig!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_D9060
https://www.commodore-info.com/brochure/item/commodore_d9060...
At 5GB/s, that would take nearly an hour and 5GB/s would be the fastest part of the trip. If it has to land on tape or travel through the net, it's going to take days.
But you are right, writing to and reading from tape will take a long time. Modern tape drives can do ~500MB/s, so 15TB will still take ~9 hours. Though that may still be faster than a 1 gbit internet connection (depending on how far you must drive).
As far as consumer hardware and consumer usages, yeah, everything just feels fast though.
Outside of that, yeah, I am not sure what use greater than gigabyte would be for 95% of the population.
I use a phone hotspot for internet instead, because it's faster than any fixed line I can get.