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 Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs
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Serverless computing: economic and architectural impact
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 Serverless computing: economic and architectural impact
An efficient bandit algorithm for real-time multivariate optimization
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 An efficient bandit algorithm for real-time multivariate optimization
Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services
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 Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services
An Evaluation of Amazon S3’s Consistency Behavior
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 An Evaluation of Amazon S3’s Consistency Behavior
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