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Designing Data-Intensive Applications – To B-Tree or not to B-Tree

Coding Blocks

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The Block Storage Is a Different Kind of Storage Than the File System

Every page has an address that can be used to point to other pages, right? And eventually you'll get all the way down to where you actually have data. But it's basically pointers to other segments of the disk, is what you're looking at. Gan: It's just kind of a different way of working through things likei so that it's almost its own file tem implementation.

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