These charts compare Moore's Law speed changes with several changes due to software innovation, including the decoding of the human genome, time to commit new software and time to stand up new apps in data centers (reduced thanks to software-defined data centers)

1. Illustrations of Software Innovation and Time to Business Value, Speed of Development Time, Change in
Costs or Changes in Data Center Operations as Compared to Pace of Moore’s Law Improvements
Robert B. Cohen, PhD, Senior Fellow, Economic Strategy Institute, August 4, 2017
. National Human Genome Research Institute’s Estimates of The Cost of Decoding based on Costs
at its Human Genome Centers, as compared to Moore’s Law Price Changes
Source: National Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, “The Cost of Sequencing a Human
Genome” https://www.genome.gov/sequencingcosts/

2. Business Value Delivery – Software Changes from Monoliths to Functions: Log Time in Hours Shown with
a Reversed Scale: Software Innovations Reduce Time 100 Times Faster
Sources: Draws upon Adrian Cockcroft, "Evolution of Business Logic from Monoliths through Microservices to Functions," Cloud
Guru,https://read.acloud.guru/evolution-of-business-logic-from-monoliths-through-microservices-to-functions-
ff464b95a44d#.r8eel3vze and Stephen Orban, "Transitioning to DevOps and the Cloud," https://medium.com/aws-enterprise-
collection/transitioning-to-devops-and-the-cloud-9488ddaf862f#.r7y6krhq5
Figure 23. Business Value Delivery – Changes in the Time to Value in Data Centers from 2000 to 2013.
Source: VMware Accelerate Advisory Services, "Delivering on the Promise of the Software-Defined Data Center," VMware
Accelerate Advisory Services blog, 2013. https://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/author/aluciani/page/3
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Moore's Law is Dead: Hours to Create New Software in Log Scale:
Software Innovation vs. Moore's Law Behavior
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Moore's Law is Dead: Time to Gain Value from Data
Centers over Time: Log Scale in Hours for Software
Innovation and Moore's Law Comparison
Software Innovation Moore's Law