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 …

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 …

A new beginning This blog post will be about the recently created library libpmem2, which is a part of PMDK repository. Before we go into details it’s worth having a short look at the history. About seven years ago, the first persistent memory library known as libpmem was started. The concept …

This is the second part of the series of articles about memory tiering. The first one explained what memory tiering is and why we need it, the second one will explain some mechanisms behind transparent tiering. This article is intended for those who would like to learn how tiering/numa balancing or …

Extending memory capacity with PMEM Databases such as Redis (an in-memory key-value open-source database) consume a lot of memory. Since fast access is essential for them, they use DRAM to store their data. DRAM is quite expensive and has limited capacity, so a solution we propose in this blog post …