greenonion
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6 years ago Hello,
I'm thinking of presenting the BigTable paper. It's full name is "Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data" and you can find it here. BigTable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data and designed to scale to a very large size. Google uses this to store the search index, for MapReduce, Google Maps, Gmail, etc. The paper was published in 2006 and since then it has been very influential to the development of similar systems such as Cassandra. Google later built Spanner which supports transactions but this can be the topic of a future meetup.
palladin
Hello everyone!
I'm happy to announce that the first Athenian Papers We Love meet up will take place on the 7th of December, at the Skroutz offices (Alekou Panagouli 91, Nea Ionia).
We expect to have one presentation per meetup, and then spend time discussing the ideas of the paper.
I'm creating this issue as a call for presentations. So, if you would like to give a talk about a paper you love, please add a comment under this issue at let us know, including the title of the paper and possibly a bit about yourself. Anyone who follows this issue can upvote any proposals they find interesting. Please bear in mind however that the final decision will be up to me and @chief.
I would like to stress that you do not have to be an expert on a field to give a presentation - let alone be one of the paper's authors. While we would more than welcome academics to present their work, the goal of this meetup is to create a community around ideas. So whether you already know and understand a paper perfectly, or you just need an extra reason to spend a few hours studying a paper you find interesting, we would be glad to have you presenting!