Dockers usage in PMDK

Dockers usage in PMDK

In this blog post, I’ll describe why we believe dockers are easy to use, time-saving, and valuable for day-to-day programming and debugging. If you have never heard of dockers (or containers in general), please read, for example, this overview. We use dockers in almost all of the repositories …

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Update on PMDK and our long term support strategy

Update on PMDK and our long term support strategy

Following Intel’s Q2 earnings call announcing the wind-down of Intel’s Optane business, Intel will also be winding down its investment in new feature development on Persistent Memory Development Kit (PMDK) libraries and adjusting long-term support and maintenance plans accordingly. The PMDK …

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Introduction to pmemstream

Introduction to pmemstream

What is pmemstream? Libpmemstream implements a pmem-optimized log data structure and provides stream-like access to data. It presents a contiguous logical address space, divided into regions, with log entries of arbitrary size. We intend for this library to be a foundation for various, more complex …

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Disaggregated Memory - In pursuit of scale and efficiency

Disaggregated Memory - In pursuit of scale and efficiency

A software person perspective on new upcoming interconnect technologies. Existing Server Landscape Servers are expensive. And difficult to maintain properly. That’s why most people turn to the public cloud for their hosting and computing needs. Dynamic virtual server instances have been key to …

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