🚀 The End of the Memory Wall — And the Beginning of the Coordination Problem

This is a submission for the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge At Google Cloud NEXT ’26, we didn’t just get faster AI. We removed one of the oldest limits in computing: The Memory Wall. Now agents can think faster than ever. But as a Senior Solution Architect, I see a new bottleneck emerging: Agents can now act faster than we can coordinate them. From Compute Bottlenecks to Coordination Bottlenecks For 15 years, building distributed systems meant fighting infrastructure limits: High-latency ne