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Interesting presentations from HPTS (High Performance Transaction Systems) 2009 (all links pdf)

Andreas Bechtolsheim: Technologies for Data- Intensive Computing

Ted Dunning: Search in the Cloud

Bradley Kuszmaul: A Performance Puzzle: B-Tree Insertions Are Slow on SSDs

Steve Mushero: Lessons Learned Dealing with Massive Scale and Slow Networks in China

Randy Shoup: Challenges and Lessons from Growing an e-Commerce Platform to Planet Scale

Jeff Whitehead: The Design and Implementation of the Zetta Storage Service