Frank McSherry was a researcher at MSR Silicon Valley; when the office was closed in 2014, most (all?) of the researchers were also let go. Frank was a member o

Frank McSherry was a researcher at MSR Silicon Valley; when the office was closed in 2014, most (all?) of the researchers were also let go. Frank was a member of a research group working on differential dataflow; not long before the office was closed they released a really awesome open-source library, Naiad [0], which looked extremely promising as a means for efficiently implementing certain stream-processing tasks. The team had a nice blog [1] going too, explaining how different aspects of Naiad make it more efficient than other stream-processing systems (at least, for certain classes of algorithms). [0]: https://github.com/MicrosoftResearch/Naiad/ https://github.com/MicrosoftResearch/Naiad/ [1]: https://bigdataatsvc.wordpress.com/ https://bigdataatsvc.wordpress.com/