Earlier this month on the Tailscale blog, Avery Pennarun started out the year by looking at how far we’ve come in computing over the last twenty years. Compute is 200,000x faster. Web servers are at least 100x. We can put 12TB of RAM into a server. Hard drives are 100x bigger and last longer. And, the c10k problem is now the c10000k problem.

It’s a thought-provoking piece showing how we can do more than ever, with less than ever. Are we keeping up with our tools?

Reading Avery’s post injected some optimism into my day. I needed that.