Today’s running session smashed me down totally (but I’ve managed to improve my record for 10 km by over 2 mins, what has a great impact on my overall mood :)), so I’ll be brief today: Data in the fast lane First, very interesting article I’ve found yesterday. It covers the latest Microsoft announcement - their Research Labs have set a new world record (today is an evening of records, it seems!) in data sorting (including I/O - both reading and writing to persistent storage). Why should we care? Such solutions are a great R&…