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Scalability! But at what COST? (2015) from the wonderfully opinionated Frank McSherry et al, where 'COST' stands for 'Configuration that Outperforms a Single
by mikhailfranco 7y ago
Scalability! But at what COST? (2015)
from the wonderfully opinionated Frank McSherry et al,
where 'COST' stands for 'Configuration that Outperforms a Single Thread'.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos15-paper-mcsherry.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos...
P.S. By pure coincidence, McSherry's new company is also on the front page today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22359769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22359769
- zomglings 7y agoThanks for the link, I really like COST. Will reference this on technical sales calls. We've seen a few customers with complex data processing setups using Spark, Airflow, etc. which we replaced with a single threaded python script with better performance.