“Zero-Copy” Hybrid Cloud for Data Analytics – Strategy, Architecture and Benchmark Report

This whitepaper details how to leverage a public cloud, such as Amazon AWS, Google GCP, or Microsoft Azure to scale analytic workloads directly on data on-premises without copying and synchronizing the data into the cloud. We will show an example of what it might look like to run on-demand Presto and Hive with Alluxio in the public cloud using on-prem HDFS. We will also show how to set up and execute performance benchmarks in two geographically dispersed Amazon EMR clusters along with a summary of our findings.

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Testing Distributed System at Scale for the Cost of a Large Pizza on AWS

Building distributed systems is no small feat. Software testing is just one of many critical practices that engineers who build these systems need to utilize to ensure the quality and usability of their software. For distributed systems, scaling out testing frameworks to ensure that enterprises who run our in highly distributed environments is a complicated (and expensive task!)

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AWS + Alluxio: Data Orchestration for Analytics & AI in the cloud

Many organizations have taken advantage of the scalability and cost-savings of cloud computing as well as cloud storage services to meet their data-powered workload demands. In addition, as data is increasingly siloed and lives everywhere, there’s a need for data orchestration to bring the needed data closer to compute. With Alluxio’s data orchestration platform, bring back data locality for your compute with in-memory & tiered data access.

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