I highly recommend people give this paper a read. I think it points the way to a radical redesign of fundamental parts of the system stack over the next 5-10 years. If you work in systems and you aren’t thinking about this stuff, you’re about to be lapped.
The Case for Learned Index Structures:
A very interesting read indeed!
Besides HN how can one find great papers like this? How did you find out about it?
I'd recommend taking a look at Papers We Love