WANalytics: Analytics for a geo-distributed, data intensive world

WANalytics: analytics for a geo-distributed data intensive world - Vulimiri et al. 2015 ...data is born distributed; we only control data replication and distributed execution strategies. This is true for so many sources of data. Combine this with Dave McCrory's observation that 'Data has Gravity' (i.e. it attracts applications and other data processing workloads to … Continue reading WANalytics: Analytics for a geo-distributed, data intensive world

Introducing CIDR’15 week on The Morning Paper

The data systems research community are a smart bunch, although it's not their research and papers I'm referring to here. Many conferences move around, but not the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR). CIDR has found a rather nice venue "on the Pacific Ocean, just south of Monterey", and decided to stick there. Schedule … Continue reading Introducing CIDR’15 week on The Morning Paper