RethinkDB: Why Start a New Database Company in 2010? (MySQLConf)
A really interesting point at about 37 minutes in, where they say that drives could end up executing code just like graphics cards do now.
That could really speed things up. You wouldn't have all the latency of doing multiple reads on the device to find a file. Normally the CPU would have interrupt raised for each return of the read but with this it could just request a file and get the return in one go.
I would have loved a little more detail on what kind of performance they already achieved and what kind of performance they think they can achieve.
This was pretty interesting, I must say. It is nice that they got into the nitty gritty technical details.
this video works on iPad :-) I was kind of amazed actually.. oh and good stuff Slava and Michael!