[Announcement] "Programming Persistent Memory: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers" Book

[Steve Scargall]

I am excited to announce the upcoming release of our book entitled "Programming Persistent Memory: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers".  You can learn more here.  

We want to provide developers with the information as early as possible, so we decided to release some of the chapters prior to publication so you can begin learning and developing now.  We also want your feedback.  Please read the early preview chapters and let us know what you think.  I will create a separate thread for feedback, discussion, and comments.

The first three chapters are available to read now.  The other chapters will be released over the coming weeks.  We will announce their preview release on this forum and you can register for our email list so we can keep you informed.  Chapters can be downloaded using the "Read it now!" links in the 'Table of Contents'.  

The eBook will be freely available online and accessible to everyone.  In addition to the FREE digital version, a print edition is offered for those readers who want a physical copy.

This is a comprehensive guide to persistent memory programming, targeted towards experienced programmers. You will understand how persistent memory brings together several new software/hardware requirements, and offers great promise for better performance and faster application startup times—a huge leap forward in byte-addressable capacity compared with current DRAM offerings.

This revolutionary new technology gives applications significant performance and capacity improvements over existing technologies. It requires a new way of thinking and developing, which makes this highly disruptive to the IT/computing industry. The full spectrum of industry sectors that will benefit from this technology include, but are not limited to, in-memory and traditional databases, AI, analytics, HPC, virtualization, and big data.

Programming Persistent Memory describes the technology and why it is exciting the industry. It covers the operating system and hardware requirements as well as how to create development environments using emulated or real persistent memory hardware. The book explains fundamental concepts, provides an introduction to persistent memory programming APIs for C, C++, Javascript, and other languages, discusses RMDA with persistent memory, reviews security features, and presents many examples. Source code and examples that you can run on your own systems are included.

What You Will Learn

• Understand what persistent memory is, what it does, and the value it brings to the industry
• Become familiar with the operating system and hardware requirements to use persistent memory
• Learn the fundamentals of persistent memory programming: why it is different from current programming methods, and what developers need to keep in mind when programming for persistence
• Persistent memory application development by example using the Persistent Memory Development Kit (PMDK)
• Designing and optimizing data structures for persistent memory
• How real-world applications are modified to leverage persistent memory
• Utilize the tools available for persistent memory programming, application performance profiling, and debugging

We hope you enjoy reading the book as much as we've enjoyed creating it.

    Steve

[Steve Scargall]

Since releasing the first three chapters, we have been working hard to finish the remaining chapters of the book.  We are pleased to let you know that previews of Chapters 1-19 are now available to read.  The book is currently with the publisher and we expect it to be released in a few months.  We will let you know when the completed book has been released.  

If you find a mistake or would like to suggest an edit, please provide feedback using our Google Groups "Chapter Feeback & Discussion"  thread.  Questions relating to the content should be asked using a new topic/thread or using our #pmem Slack channel.

Thanks,

    Steve