RSSIn January, I attended a presentation by Prof. Donald Kossmann (Professor at ETH Zurich) entitled “Predictable Performance for Unpredictable Workloads”. In this presentation, Prof. Kossmann described SwissBox, a highly unconventional “database appliance designed to process thousands of concurrent queries and updates with bounded query response times and strict data freshness guarantees”.
One of the examples that was presented was the dramatic change in traffic faced by Amadeus a global computerized reservation system, after the eruption of Mt. Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland. [...]
