As David Patterson observed in 1980, “A RISC potentially gains in speed merely from a simpler design.” Patterson’s principle of simplicity underpins a new alternative to speculation: A deterministic, ...

For the past two decades, distributed caches, also known as in-memory data grids, have been used to address such challenges.

I do not believe in cheating. Traditionally, the term “ braindump ” referred to someone taking an exam, memorizing the questions, and sharing them online for others to use. That practice is unethical ...