Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs

August 30, 2019May 25, 2020 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 3 Comments

Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al., VLDB'19 If you’re moving an OLAP workload to the cloud (AWS in the context of this paper), what DBMS setup should you go with? There’s a broad set of choices including where you store the data, whether you run your own DBMS nodes or use ... Continue Reading

Serverless computing: economic and architectural impact

October 19, 2017 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 18 Comments

Serverless computing: economic and architectural impact Adzic et al., ESEC/FSE’17 Today we have another paper inspired by talks from the GOTO Copenhagen conference, in this case Gojko Adzic’s talk on ”Designing for the serverless age.” It’s a case study on how serverless computing changes the shape of the systems that we build, and the (dramatic) ... Continue Reading

An efficient bandit algorithm for real-time multivariate optimization

September 27, 2017 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 4 Comments

An efficient bandit algorithm for realtime multivariate optimization Hill et al., KDD'17 Aka, "How Amazon improved conversion by 21% in a single week!" Yesterday we saw the hard-won wisdom on display in 'seven myths' recommending that experiments be kept simple and only test one thing at a time, otherwise interpreting the results can get really ... Continue Reading

Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services

November 24, 2014 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 18 Comments

Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services - Newcombe et al 2014 Leslie Lamport recently gave a talk at the React conference on the specification language TLA. I wasn't there to hear the talk, but I was intrigued enough to dig in and find out a little more. Especially since I have some experience ... Continue Reading

An Evaluation of Amazon S3’s Consistency Behavior

November 12, 2014 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

Eventual Consistency: How soon is eventual? An Evaluation of Amazon S3's Consistency Behavior - Bermbach and Tai, 2011 In honour of AWS re:Invent this week, and since we've already covered the excellent Dynamo paper at #31 in this series, here's a paper looking at eventual consistency and the behaviour of S3. In this work we ... Continue Reading

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Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs

Serverless computing: economic and architectural impact

An efficient bandit algorithm for real-time multivariate optimization

Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services

An Evaluation of Amazon S3’s Consistency Behavior