Articles by Kapil Surlaker
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This is a part of our continuing series on engineering and analytics at LinkedIn. This post covers our most recent Tech Talk featuring Prof. John Ousterhout of Stanford. If this isn’t your cup of Java, check back tomorrow for regular LinkedIn programming. Else, check out our Engineering Blog. - Ed.
Performance of disk based systems has not kept pace and handling the scale that large web applications demand has been a challenge. Developers have to rely on aggressive caching which creates its own set of problems. In his talk, Prof Ousterhout talked about an entirely new approach of dealing with this problem i.e. shift the focus on online data storage from disk to DRAM. While DRAM is still more expensive than disk, for lot of online data, DRAM is cheap enough that most of online data can now fit in RAM.
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