DZone

MAY 19, 2019

What fascinates me most about the volatile keyword is that it is still necessary, for me, because my software still runs on a silicon chip. Even if my application runs in the cloud on the JVM, despite all of those software layers abstracting away the underlying hardware, the volatile keyword is still needed due to the cache of the processor that my software runs on.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 19, 2019

RPCValet: NI-driven tail-aware balancing of µs-scale RPCs Daglis et al., ASPLOS’19. Last week we learned about the [increased tail-latency sensitivity of microservices based applications with high RPC fan-outs. Seer uses estimates of queue depths to mitigate latency spikes on the order of 10-100ms, in conjunction with a cluster manager. Today’s paper choice, RPCValet, operates at latencies 3 orders of magnitude lower, targeting reduction in tail latency for services that themselves have se

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SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

SQL Server will ship Azure SQL Database Edge: [link]. With the announcement I can tell you more about one of the things we have been working on; SQL Server running on IoT Edge and Developer machines in under 500MB of memory. The effort goes beyond IoT Edge devices and extends to the common developer experience. The effort focuses attention on memory usage and disk space requirements of SQL Server.

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