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 …

Introduction In the PMDK team, we focus on the quality of our codebase. One of the standard practices in the software development is a static code analysis, which improves the overall project quality and fixes bugs in the early stage of development. Since there is no silver bullet for avoiding bugs, …

If you are following our mailing group, you’ve probably noticed a stream of release announcements for libraries that are a part of PMDK. Here’s a recap of the most important new features and additions. libpmemkv 1.0 The primary goal of PMDK is enabling adoption of Persistent Memory. We …

Introduction When we published the first PMDK stable release, we committed to maintaining stable on-media layout. This means that all future PMDK changes have to be backward compatible. Unfortunately, we weren’t successful in adhering to the strict requirements which would be needed to …

We’ve been very quiet on this blog as of late, mostly because of the amount of work that we needed to put into our very ambitiously planned 1.5 release. But we’ve made it, and there’s finally time to get back to discussing the technical minutiae of our work. In this post, we will …