Archive of posts tagged: Databases
The Looming Network Wall in Data-Intensive Computing
Fast, RDMA-capable networks present a “network wall” for data-intensive applications in a data center. Software developers are facing two unpalatable choices: either communicate using messages and re-implement features of TCP/IP in their application, or...
Towards Predictable Performance for Interactive Workloads
… today it is hard for software developers to drill down to determine the root causes of performance fluctuations.
Accelerators in data centers: the systems perspective
In this blogpost I share what I learned at the Seventh Workshop on Multi-core and Rack-scale Systems (MaRS) co-located with the EuroSYS Conference on Computer Systems held in Belgrade in April. It is a small but vigorous interdisciplinary workshop that focuses on the...
Back to the future for commodity processor design? Biased perspectives from the data world.
I’m not sure if I should be writing a blog for architects. As some of you know, my expertise is in database systems. In response to this blog, I’m likely to get flames from some of you informing me about how I have missed the boat in my observations. If that happens,...Subscribe
