And I love this quote from the intro to the Scalability! paper: “You can have a second computer once you’ve shown you know how to use the first one.” –Paul Barham
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The forerunner of that fantastic paper is this epic blog post: awk can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster - https://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html …https://twitter.com/dwmal1/status/979393495290040321 …
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It turns out that Paul Barham of the pointed quote is a Googler, ex Microsoft Research Cambridge, ex University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=q34R9psAAAAJ&hl=en …
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I remember the blog post actually! I hadn't realised they were by the same people, but clearly linked!
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I don’t think it’s the same people but it’s definitely the same kind of idea :-) AFAICT the blog post was published earlier, but who knows how long the paper waited between writing and publishing?!
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