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on Jul. 9, 2019
For years, developers have open()ed a file, write()n to it, then read() from it on a local filesystem. In distributed systems, however, these actions involve multiple processes across different hosts at different places in the network. Each of these hosts — or the network itself — could fail indepe…
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on Jul. 2, 2019
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on Jun. 24, 2019
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on Jun. 20, 2019
Thanks to some powerful new technologies, web applications have come a long way in the past decade. But the performance of these web applications still lags behind that of their native counterparts. Like many complex applications on the web, our desktop Facebook.com website is slower to load than…
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on Jun. 10, 2019
The Aria is a set of initiatives to dramatically increase PrestoDB efficiency. Our goal is to achieve a 2-3x decrease in CPU time for Hive queries against tables stored in ORC format. For Aria, We are pursuing improvements in three areas: table scan, repartitioning (exchange, shuffle), and hash joi…