# Introducing persistent memory

DevFeed: [Introducing persistent memory](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-persistent-memory-39364.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://kt.academy/article/pmem-introducing-persistent-memory>)

Published: 2022-05-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Kt. Academy](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/kt-academy.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [IO](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/io.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/servers.md>)

Tags: [hdd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hdd.md>), [io](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/io.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [memory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory.md>), [nvme](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvme.md>), [overhead](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/overhead.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [ssd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssd.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>), [storage-engine](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage-engine.md>), [workshop-learning-programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workshop-learning-programming.md>)

## AI overview

An introduction to persistent memory, a non-volatile storage technology that fits in standard DIMM slots. It explains its position between DRAM and storage, its durability and byte addressability, and how applications can use it to avoid block I/O overhead.

## Source excerpt

Let's learn the basics of persistent memory, its characteristics, how it works and the beauty of byte addressability.