Misc website updates (#132)

* Update sidebars.js
* Create news.md
* Update about-us.md
* Update results-resp-bench.md

website/docs/benchmarking/results-resp-bench.md

@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ Title: Performance Results (Resp.bench)
 ---
 # Evaluating Garnet's Performance Benefits
 
-We have tested **Garnet** thoroughly in a variety of deployment modes:
+We have tested Garnet thoroughly in a variety of deployment modes:
 
 * Same local machine for client and server
 * Two local machines - one client and one server
-* Azure Windows machines
-* Azure Linux machines
+* Azure Windows VMs
+* Azure Linux VMs
 
 Below, we focus on a selected few key results.
 
@@ -274,17 +274,17 @@ In both cases,  **Garnet** consistently maintains higher throughput and better s
 | Figure 8: Throughput (log-scale), varying number of client sessions, for a database size of 1024 keys and 1MB payload. |
 
 In Figure 9, we evaluate the performance of BITOP NOT and BITOP AND (with two source keys) for increasing number of threads and a payload size of 1MB.
-**Garnet** maintains overall higher throughput as they number of client session increase compared to every other system we tested.
-It all also performs very well under high contention given that our DB size is relatively small (i.e. only 1024 keys).
+**Garnet** maintains overall higher throughput as the number of client session increases, compared to every other system we tested.
+It also performs very well under high contention, given that our DB size is relatively small (i.e., only 1024 keys).
 
 
 | ![tpt-bitop-threads.png](../../static/img/benchmark/tpt-bitop-threads.png) | 
 |:--:| 
 | Figure 9: Throughput (log-scale), varying number of client sessions, for a database size of 1024 keys and 1MB payload. |
 
-As show in Figures 10 and 11, even for small batch sizes **Garnet** attain higher throughput that any other system that we tested on the associated bitmap
+As show in Figures 10 and 11, even for small batch sizes, **Garnet** attains a higher throughput that any other system we tested on the associated bitmap
 operations.
-In fact, it does not require much to observe a noticeable difference in throughput since even at batchsize of 4 **Garnet** is signficantly faster.
+In fact, we observe significantly higher throughput with **Garnet** even at a small batchsize of 4.
 
 <details>
     <summary>Varying batch size (GETBIT/SETBIT/BITOP_NOT/BITOP_AND)</summary>

website/docs/welcome/about-us.md

@@ -10,16 +10,16 @@ Check out our blog post [here](/blog/brief-history) for more details on our hist
 
 ## Contributors
 
-Badrish Chandramouli, Vasileios Zois, Ted Hart, Gabriela Martinez Sanchez, Yoganand Rajasekaran, Tal Zaccai, Lukas Maas.
-
-Darren Gehring, Irina Spiridonova.
-
-Alan Yang, Pradeep Yadav, Alex Dubinkov, Venugopal Latchupatulla.
-
-Knut Magne Risvik, Sarah Williamson, Narayanan Subramanian, Saurabh Singh, Padmanabh Gupta.
-
-Sajjad Rahnama.
-
-Prior contributors to the [FASTER](https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER) research project.
-
-You can contact us at garnetteam AT microsoft.com
+Core Team:
+* Badrish Chandramouli, Vasileios Zois, Ted Hart, Yoganand Rajasekaran, Tal Zaccai, Lukas Maas, Darren Gehring, Irina Spiridonova.
+* Email: garnetteam AT microsoft.com
+
+Project Partners:
+* Alan Yang, Pradeep Yadav, Alex Dubinkov, Venugopal Latchupatulla.
+* Knut Magne Risvik, Sarah Williamson, Narayanan Subramanian, Saurabh Singh, Padmanabh Gupta.
+* Kevin Montrose, Matt Tremblay.
+* Open-source contributors to [Garnet](https://github.com/microsoft/garnet/contributors).
+
+Prior Contributors:
+* Sajjad Rahnama, Gabriela Martinez Sanchez.
+* Open-source contributors to [FASTER](https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER/contributors).

website/docs/welcome/news.md

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+---
+id: news
+sidebar_label: News
+title: News
+---
+
+# In the News
+
+Below we provide links to news articles, blog posts, and discussions about Garnet:
+
+* [Garnet Blog](https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/blog)
+* [MSR Blog Post](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/introducing-garnet-an-open-source-next-generation-faster-cache-store-for-accelerating-applications-and-services/)
+* [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39752504)
+* [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1bkvfzb/garnet_a_faster_cache_store_drop_in_replacement/)
+* [The Stack](https://www.thestack.technology/microsoft-takes-on-redis-with-new-open-source-garnet-cache-store/)
+* [TechRadar](https://www.techradar.com/computing/software/microsoft-announces-garnet-a-new-open-source-tool-that-could-make-apps-run-faster)
+* [Linuxiac](https://linuxiac.com/microsoft-open-sourced-garnet-a-new-remote-cache-store/)
+* [Neowin](https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-research-unveils-garnet-which-makes-apps-and-services-quicker/)
+* [WinBuzzer](https://winbuzzer.com/2024/03/19/microsoft-researchs-garnet-setting-new-standards-for-ultra-low-latency-and-performance-xcxwbn/)
+* [Marktechpost](https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/03/22/researchers-at-microsoft-introduce-garnet-an-open-source-and-faster-cache-store-system-for-accelerating-applications-and-services/)
+* [Blog Post by neue.cc](https://neue.cc/2024/03/19_Garnet.html)

website/sidebars.js

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ const sidebars = {
   tutorialSidebar: [{type: 'autogenerated', dirName: '.'}],
 
 	garnetDocSidebar: [
-		{type: 'category', label: 'Welcome', collapsed: false, items: ["welcome/intro", "welcome/features", "welcome/releases", "welcome/compatibility", "welcome/roadmap", "welcome/faq", "welcome/about-us"]},
+		{type: 'category', label: 'Welcome', collapsed: false, items: ["welcome/intro", "welcome/news", "welcome/features", "welcome/releases", "welcome/compatibility", "welcome/roadmap", "welcome/faq", "welcome/about-us"]},
 		{type: 'category', label: 'Getting Started', items: ["getting-started/build", "getting-started/configuration", "getting-started/security"]},
 		{type: 'category', label: 'Benchmarking', items: ["benchmarking/overview", "benchmarking/results-resp-bench", "benchmarking/resp-bench"]},
 		{type: 'category', label: 'Commands', items: ["commands/overview", "commands/api-compatibility", "commands/raw-string", "commands/generic-commands", "commands/analytics-commands", "commands/data-structures", "commands/server-commands", "commands/checkpoint-commands", "commands/transactions-commands", "commands/cluster"]},