Hands-on technical analysis of a novel data platform for high-performance block I/O in the cloud, tested by Tanel Poder, a database consultant and a long-time computer performance geek. Index Background and motivation Architecture and internals of the Silk Platform I/O throughput for table scanning (for your big data warehouses) IOPS, I/O latency and write performance (OLTP and data loads) Scaling out I/O performance in the cloud (demo of live operation) Summary and architectural opportunitie...
