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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

” Web3 has similarly progressed through “basic blockchain and cryptocurrency tokens” to “decentralized finance” to “NFTs as loyalty cards.” Each time, the underlying implementation changed a bit while still staying true to the larger phenomenon of “Analyzing Data for Fun and Profit.”

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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. What’s their secret???