Papers

Interesting papers and blog posts, roughly organized by topic

Data engineering

• Choosing a Cloud DBMS: Architectures and Tradeoffs
• Presto: SQL on Everything
• "Further reading" papers in Globus Labs' "Flows" (UChicago)
• How Apache Airflow Distributes Jobs on Celery Workers
• Uber Engineering highlights
  • Uber Case Study: Choosing the Right HDFS File Format for Your Apache Spark Jobs
  • Cost Efficiency @ Scale in Big Data File Format
  • Capacity Recommendation Engine: Throughput and Utilization Based Predictive Scaling
  • CRISP: Critical Path Analysis for Microservice Architectures
  • Enabling Seamless Kafka Async Queuing with Consumer Proxy
  • Building Scalable Streaming Pipelines for Near Real-Time Features

ML

• Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems

Security

AWS resources

• BYOK
• Key management best practices whitepaper
• KMS crypto details paper
• Section: customer keys and AWS keys
• Keys and external AWS accounts
• KMS workshop
• KMS Crypto Details

Investing, finance

• CIPM Study Sessions
  • Returns attribution