Programming persistent memory is not easy. In several chapters we have described that applications that take advantage of persistent memory must take responsibility for atomicity of operations and consistency of data structures. PMDK libraries like libpmemobj are designed with flexibility and simplicity in mind. Usually, these are conflicting requirements, and one has to be sacrificed for the sake of the other. The truth is that in most cases, an API’s flexibility increases its complexity.
In the current cloud computing ecosystem, there is an unpredictable ...
