8
40
18
24
32
Enterprise SSDs
Mark Moshayedi and
Patrick Wilkison, STEC
The era of enterprise-
grade, flash-based solid-
state disks has arrived.
40
The Five-minute Rule
20 Years Later,
and How Flash Memory
Changes the Rules
Goetz Graefe, Hewlett-
Packard Laboratories
Revisiting Gray and
Putzolu’s famous rule
for trading off memory
and I/O capacity.
KODE VICIOUS 6
Sizing Your System
George V. Neville-Neil,
Consultant
INTERVIEW 8
A Conversation with
Steve Bourne, Eric Allman,
and Bryan Cantrill
Three Queue editorial board
members discuss tools,
methodologies, and other
staples of software
engineering. Part one of
a two-part series.
BOOK REVIEWS 53
CALENDAR 54
CURMUDGEON 56
The Fabrication of Reality
Stan Kelly-Bootle, Author
