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Ensuring Performance, Efficiency, and Scalability of Digital Transformation

Alex Podelko

And we still have a lot of great sessions covering other hot topics: digital transformation, security, AI, machine learning, blockchain, etc. System Performance Estimation, Evaluation, and Decision (SPEED) by Kingsum Chow, Yingying Wen, Alibaba. Boris has unique expertise in that area – especially in Big Data applications.

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

The Morning Paper

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. Do we want that? Yes please!