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Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System? (2022) | Jul 2023
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The most common example is DPDK [1]. It's a framework for building bespoke networking stacks that are usable from userspace, without involving the kernel.

You'll find DPDK mentioned a lot in the networking/HPC/data center literature. An example of a backend framework that uses DPDK is the seastar framework [2]. Also, I recently stumbled upon a paper for efficient RPC networks in data centers [3].

If you want to learn more, the p99 conference has tons of speakers talking about some interesting challenges in that space.

[1] https://www.dpdk.org/.

[2] https://github.com/scylladb/seastar

[3] https://github.com/erpc-io/eRPC
Abstraction Is Expensive | Dec 2022
ScyllaDB is, ironically, maybe one of the worst examples the author could have come up with for "abstraction" in the article.

If folks aren't familiar with their work/internal tech, go check out some of their repos like Seastar. They have some of the most talented systems programmers on the planet writing thin veneers over kernel and hardware API's to squeeze every ounce out of performance.

https://github.com/scylladb/seastar

You want to talk about getting nerd-sniped to work somewhere if you're into performance/low-latency systems and databases =P

I know it's beside the point, but I just had to share because I thought that was funny

The Lisp Curse (2017) | Mar 2022
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You can: https://github.com/scylladb/seastar