Complexity: Another nail in the coffin...
...for the cloud.
Before anyone posts the obvious rebuttal: note this phrase "two of the world's larger CPU stressors, Google and Facebook".
If your critical business processes are on-prem, the chances are that you will not be stressing your CPU's to "mercurial" levels. But if your accounts data (for instance) is in the cloud, chances are CPU time in crunching it is being shared with other companies' CPU time.
I grew up with the concept of "the clock pulse". If we're pushing synchronous data to the limits (rise-fall time of data wrt clock pulses) then you could arguably get a skew effect. If designers are in denial about that then there are big problems ahead. (Rowhammer is a related problem).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
