The end of a multi-year journey
Well, I finally did it and got my Ph.D. degree, I am extremely happy!
Recent posts
Second place in the ACM SIGMOD 2015 programming contest
Last spring was a really exciting period! Me (EPFL), and two more PhD students from the SAP HANA Database Campus team, Ismail Oukid (TU Dresden) and Ingo Mül...
Accessing Intel MSR hardware counters directly in C on Linux
Intel’s hardware counters are a real gem to anyone trying to delve into the performance characteristics of the system. There exist hardware counters in almos...
The significance of performance for databases
It’s been a long time since my last post..! I’m now in the middle of the fourth year. There’s so much that has happened! I published a lot, I programmed a lo...
Debug a process of another user using gdb, Eclipse and Ubuntu
We assume that we (user1) need to attach gdb to an already executing process of another user (user2). Simply doing that, however, does not work, as gdb is ra...