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I am very excited that Klaus Jensen from Samsung, along with a few of his colleagues, have agreed to join /r/databasedevelopment for an hour-long AMA on all things NVMe. To be held at the end of January. Klaus is maintainer of the QEMU emulated NVMe device and coauthor on a

Vol:17 No:12 → LeanStore: A High-Performance Storage Engine for NVMe SSDs vldb.org/pvldb/vol17/p4…

important considerations include - sync vs async I/O - buffered vs direct I/O - prioritization and scheduling - request depth, size, and pattern (seq vs random) - alignment and striping to learn more about the topic, we recommend starting with vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p2…

With a (one-time) budget of ~$42,000, you can configure a 3-broker Kafka cluster with HW capable of 56 GB/s of sequential writes (on paper). In AWS, $40k/yr buys you a 15 MB/s Kafka cluster. 🤯 That's also an annual, recurring cost. It's also self-hosted. Choose a managed

Tomorrow, the premiere of this year's Lightning Talks at Systems Distributed! Hosted by Natalie Vais, five speakers selected on Day 1 took to the stage on Day 2, in a race against the gong... Join us on YT tomorrow, 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET youtube.com/watch?v=k58vJl…

BtrBlocks | Why we need new cloud building blocks | Maximilian Kuschewski

The #SD25 lightning talk session, hosted by Natalie Vais, is premiering now! Our speakers are: Alfonso Subiotto ❄️, Tyler F. Cloutier, Joris Portegies Zwart, Maximilian Kuschewski & Denis Bazhenov. Join us in the live chat now: youtube.com/watch?v=k58vJl…

Vol:18 No:11 → SSD-iq: Uncovering the Hidden Side of SSD Performance vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p4…

Interested in io_uring? Check out our new paper, joint work with my former colleagues from TU Darmstadt (Carsten Binnig and Matthias) and from TU Munich (Muhammad El-Hindi and Viktor Leis). arxiv.org/abs/2512.04859…