Programming Persistent Memory

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This comprehensive guide to persistent memory programming is designed for both beginners and experienced programmers. It explores how persistent memory integrates new software and hardware requirements, promising enhanced performance and faster application startup times, significantly surpassing current DRAM capabilities. This groundbreaking technology offers substantial performance and capacity improvements, necessitating a shift in development approaches, which is transformative for the IT industry. Various sectors, including in-memory and traditional databases, AI, analytics, HPC, virtualization, and big data, stand to benefit. The book details the technology's significance, covering operating system and hardware requirements, and how to set up development environments with emulated or actual persistent memory hardware. It introduces fundamental concepts and programming APIs for languages like C, C++, and JavaScript, discusses RDMA with persistent memory, reviews security features, and provides numerous examples. Included source code allows readers to run examples on their systems. You will gain an understanding of persistent memory, its industry value, and the essential requirements for utilizing it. The guide also covers the fundamentals of persistent memory programming, application development using the Persistent Memory Development Kit (PMDK), data structure optimization, and tools for performance profiling and debuggi