An Analysis of Distributed Systems Syllabi With a Focus on Performance-Related Topics

Autor:	Abad, Cristina L., Iosup, Alexandru, Boza, Edwin F., Ortiz-Holguin, Eduardo
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Computer Science - Computers and Society Computer Science - Distributed Parallel and Cluster Computing K.3.2
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1145/3447545.3451197
Popis:	We analyze a dataset of 51 current (2019-2020) Distributed Systems syllabi from top Computer Science programs, focusing on finding the prevalence and context in which topics related to performance are being taught in these courses. We also study the scale of the infrastructure mentioned in DS courses, from small client-server systems to cloud-scale, peer-to-peer, global-scale systems. We make eight main findings, covering goals such as performance, and scalability and its variant elasticity; activities such as performance benchmarking and monitoring; eight selected performance-enhancing techniques (replication, caching, sharding, load balancing, scheduling, streaming, migrating, and offloading); and control issues such as trade-offs that include performance and performance variability. Comment: Accepted for publication at WEPPE 2021, to be held in conjunction with ACM/SPEC ICPE 2021: https://doi.org/10.1145/3447545.3451197 This article is a follow-up of our prior ACM SIGCSE publication, arXiv:2012.00552
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01858 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv