Bottlenecks of Modern Data Storage Technologies

Get an overview of storage technologies focusing on the internal organization of data storage – going from the hardware level of a physical hard drive to the logical level of a file system layout.
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Today, Facebook is releasing its Zstandard compression algorithm into the wild as open source. The lossless compression technology is aimed at replacing existing libraries like Zlib that are powered by the outdated Deflate compression algorithm. In addition to Zstandard, Facebook is also dropping its MyRocks storage engine as open source. MyRocks is currently being used by Facebook to…