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Out of curiosity, why is it called the lambda architecture?
by grandalf 14y ago
Out of curiosity, why is it called the lambda architecture?
- nathanmarz 14y agoLambda is the standard symbol used to represent functions (coming from the lambda calculus). Since the purpose of this architecture is to compute arbitrary functions on arbitrary data, and since the internals of the architecture make heavy use of pure functions (batch view is a pure function of all data, and queries are pure functions of the precomputed views), "Lambda Architecture" seemed like an appropriate name.