This “problem” is so common there is a website linuxatemyram.com which briefly describes what Linux is doing and why your RAM is not really gone. They have a good explanation there, but I didn’t find any graphs when looking through it, so I decided to run some experiments and graph the results. The code I […]
Cloud Services Cost Comparison Site
Deploying your services to the cloud can be convenient, but costly. Here is a great site I just learned about that compares services and costs between cloud service providers: https://getdeploying.com
Erasure Codes for Distributed Storage
This survey paper focuses on erasure coding techniques utilized on distributed storage systems such as RAID. There is a specific emphasis on Reed-Solomon codes due to their ubiquity within distributed storage systems. Advances in coding techniques have substantial impacts on the cost and performance of storage systems. Several methods of utilizing Reed-Solomon codes are examined […]