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If you can write a paper like this, however right or wrong, that’s the standard for Berkeley Computer Science often cited as one of the best programs out there?
by WhitneyLand 8y ago
If you can write a paper like this, however right or wrong, that’s the standard for Berkeley Computer Science often cited as one of the best programs out there?
It’s nothing bad per se it just seems closer to nice blog post than research.
- jahewson 8y agoIt’s basically an opinion piece - CIDR is an unusual conference and encourages this: http://cidrdb.org/cidr2019/ http://cidrdb.org/cidr2019/
- DATACOMMANDER 8y agoHow is it an opinion piece? If you called it a bait-and-switch I might agree, since it starts off criticizing the performance of serverless architectures in general, and proceeds to critique the performance of one specific serverless architecture. But that critique uses the scientific method, and their conclusions appear to be reasonably well argued, so long as you substitute “Lamda + DynamoDB/S3” for “serverless”. What am I missing?
- WhitneyLand 8y agoMaybe the perception has less to do with the paper or Berkeley that than a possible bias against Software Engineering research. I’ve always perceived it, maybe unfairly, as one of the least rigorous topics in Computer Science, and more removed from more foundational insights that can have eventually have more important, broader impact or increase fundamental understanding that enables advances in other areas. If any of the conjecture is true, it wouldn’t be a criticism of any researcher in this area or their capabilities. Maybe it’s just a matter of maturity. How rigorous can I expect theory to be when th top software companies in the word still have trouble estiming delivery and complexity of software implementations? We may just not know enough yet.