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clustering

Last edited: August 8, 2025

CMU

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CMU-15445 SEP042024

Last edited: August 8, 2025

Disk based architecture

  • the DBMS primarily stores stuff on non-violatle disk
  • meaning: the DBMS’ job is to move stuff between violatle and non-volatle storage

Challenges

  • how do you makue sure memory-writtten info is commited to disk?

Hierarchy model

there’s a tradeoff because as your system because faster, you have less of it and (in case its volatle) it stays around less long

Access Order

Key challenge: random-access on non-volatile storage is almost always slower than sequential access

CNS regulation

Last edited: August 8, 2025

A brain signal to help maintain glucose homeostatis

Brain takes glucose product + glucose uptake to control energy balance in food intake and energy expenditure.

The brain takes:

  • Neural
  • Behavioral
  • Hormonal

responses to maintain glucode uptake.

Code Review

Last edited: August 8, 2025

A Code Review is a systematic study code by others—like proofreading an essay. There’s a few different ways of doing Code Review.

Why do we code review?

  1. catch bugs, style deviations, design + convention violations
  2. security trade-off: having someone who is well-versed in security is useful
  3. to know how other people’s code work
  4. to learn additional skills, languages, frameworks

Code Review Methodology

Don’t do it

  • Very fast!
  • None of the benefits of code review

Over-the-Shoulder Code Review

Over-the-Shoulder Code Review typically is done over someone’s shoulder—author walking the reviewer through code.