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Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

Blockchain is a good example of this. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. A distributed system comprises of a variety of hardware and software components with different operating systems and technologies, meaning the processors are separate and independent of each other. Peer-to-Peer.

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Even more amazing papers at VLDB 2019 (that I didn’t have space to cover yet)

The Morning Paper

Could it be Analyzing efficient stream processing on modern hardware ? Hyper Dimension Shuffle describes how Microsoft improved the cost of data shuffling, one of the most costly operations, in their petabyte-scale internal big data analytics platform, SCOPE. BlockchainDB – it’s a blockchain underneath, and a database on top.