Notes
Spanner & Tensorflow
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Last two papers!
April 5th - class wrap-up discussion, exam review
April 10 & 12 - project presentations
Spanner - big, distributed SQL database (mostly)
- at Google
- compare with Bigtable, Dynamo (NoSQL systems)
- what is the difference in functionality?
- why does it matter?
- HOW?! what is the "neat trick"?
- has to do with time, but why?
- to what degree is Spanner a full relational database, like Postgres?
Tensorflow
- how does it compare with mapreduce?
- what type of operations does it handle?
- why are these operations important?
- how are they done in a scalable fashion?
- why isn't this more general?