Building Flash-aware Applications with Software-Enabled Flash SDK

Learn how to leverage Software-Enabled Flash™ (SEF) technology in this 59-minute conference talk from the Storage Developer Conference 2022. Dive deep into building flash-aware applications using the SEF SDK, a vendor-neutral Linux Foundation open source project that revolutionizes flash memory usage for cloud and enterprise applications. Master the fundamentals of controlling flash memory data placement, managing latency outcomes, and implementing isolation through hands-on exploration of the SDK. Compare traditional I/O stacks with SEF implementations while discovering essential configuration and control options for optimizing SEF-based applications. Explore critical components including the command line interface, FIO tool, Virtio device drivers, and reference flash translation layer. Gain practical insights into block I/O, lookup tables, superblock management, garbage collection, metadata persistence, and computational storage. Understand retention policies, flash requirements, hyperscale applications, and power loss protection to develop robust flash-aware solutions.