Build Stuff

Many systems give you wonderfully simple mechanisms for writing to a file that are some of the leakiest abstractions out there. There are many layers of abstraction between you can the disk. How to make things fast? How to make sure data is actually on the disk? What things can go wrong? How can we benchmark and be sure our benchmarks are reasonable? All of these questions and more will be covered in this talk as we look in detail at everything you never wanted to know.