An analysis of distributed systems syllabi with a focus on performance-related topics

Cristina L. Abad; Alexandru Iosup; Edwin F. Boza; Eduardo Ortiz Holguin

doi:10.1145/3447545.3451197

An analysis of distributed systems syllabi with a focus on performance-related topics

Cristina L. Abad, Alexandru Iosup, Edwin F. Boza, Eduardo Ortiz Holguin

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICPE 2021
Subtitle of host publication	Companion of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	121-126
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450383318
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3447545.3451197
Publication status	Published - Apr 2021
Event	2021 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, ICPE 2021 - Virtual, Online, France Duration: 19 Apr 2021 → 21 Apr 2021

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Conference	2021 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, ICPE 2021
Country/Territory	France
City	Virtual, Online
Period	19/04/21 → 21/04/21

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We thank the anonymous WEPPE reviewers that thoroughly read our paper and provided invaluable feedback that helped improve the quality of this manuscript. Part of this work was sponsored by a Google Faculty Research Award (CA, EB), and the NWO (AI), projects MagnaData and OffSense.

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Abad, CL, Iosup, A, Boza, EF & Holguin, EO 2021, An analysis of distributed systems syllabi with a focus on performance-related topics. in ICPE 2021: Companion of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 121-126, 2021 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, ICPE 2021, Virtual, Online, France, 19/04/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3447545.3451197

An analysis of distributed systems syllabi with a focus on performance-related topics. / Abad, Cristina L.; Iosup, Alexandru; Boza, Edwin F.; Holguin, Eduardo Ortiz.

ICPE 2021: Companion of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2021. p. 121-126.

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