CS 5/579, Winter 2020
January 6/8 / Week 1
Introductory Sessions
Monday
Useful Readings
- Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster (Blog post), Adam Drake, Jan 2014
- Relative latency of various operations (cache miss, disk access, etc.)
- Haunted By Data, Maciej Cegłowski, Presentation at Strata+Hadoop World 2015.
Additional readings of interest:
- Data Center As a Computer, 2nd ed., Luiz Andre Barroso, Jimmy Clidaras, Urs Hölzle, Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture, 2013. [pdf]
- Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems, Jeff Dean, Keynote LADIS 2009.
Wednesday
Useful Readings
- MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters, Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, Communications of the ACM, vol. 51, no. 1, pg. 107-113, 2008.
- MapReduce: A Flexible Data Processing Tool, Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, Communications of the ACM, vol 53, no. 1, pg. 72-77, 2010.