The Challenge in the record-all-era

My new column got up today, titled "The Challenge in the record-all-era". ????????? Do you know how fast the recorded data by human beings is growing? Here're two basic questions. How many data, in size, have human beings recorded up to 20… more »
Posted under Database on 04.24.2008 • Send feedback » • PermalinkPermalink

Lying Computer

My latest column, titled "Lying Computer" was up today. It's about "sync", which flushes buffers in memory and write to disk physically, then synchronized the state in memory with one on file. It is not done by one single component, but done in rela… more »
Posted under Information, Durability on 02.28.2008 • Send feedback » • PermalinkPermalink
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