The Limitations of Today's SSDs | The Backend...

In this video I introduce 5 different design patterns for building backend applications. Each mode explains how a socket listener is established, a connections are established and how threads and connections are managed to read, write and process requests. 

Page tables provide the mapping between virtual memory and physical memory for each process. This means it needs to be as efficient and as fast as possible. I explore the inner workings of page tables in this episode.0:00 Intro2:00 Virtual Memory ⁃ ⁃ 8:00 MMU10:00 Page Tables ⁃ ⁃ ...  Show more

As InfoQ previously reported in March 2016, Dropbox announced that they had migrated away from Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this week's podcast Robert Bluman talks to Preslav Le. Preslav has been a software engineer at Dropbox for the past three years, contributing to various as ...  Show more

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Ever wondered about the origin of certain storage or IT administrative tasks? Because of legacy architectures, IT practitioners have been forced to worry about and repeatedly carry out certain administrative tasks because, well, "that's how it's always been with this product." Jo ...  Show more

C’est dans un communiqué diffusé mi-avril que Western Digital, le spécialiste des cartes SD et des disques durs, a évoqué l'arrivée prochaine de cartes SD de 4 To. Jusqu’à présent, seules des cartes de 1 To étaient disponibles dans la gamme SanDisk Extreme Pro. Mais en quadrup ...