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

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01858v1
• Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 16:49:09 GMT
• Title: An Analysis of Distributed Systems Syllabi With a Focus on Performance-Related Topics
• Authors: Cristina L. Abad and Alexandru Iosup and Edwin F. Boza and Eduardo Ortiz-Holguin
• Abstract summary: We analyze a dataset of 51 current ( 2019-2020) Distributed Systems syllabi from top Computer Science programs. We study the scale of the infrastructure mentioned in DS courses, from small client-server systems to cloud-scale, peer-to-peer, global-scale systems.
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• Abstract: 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.

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