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121: Materialize Origins: Breaking Down Data Flow Layers with Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry

The Data Stack Show

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The Limits of Timely Data Flow

Timely data flow is most more generic, like an operating system as you should like running. It's definitely a quantum step up over the MapReduce style models which are just straight line graphs. Once you've actually broken things apart into different little pieces, you could have always written whatever you wanted as sort of one monolithic timely data flow operator that doesn't really benefit from expressing stuff as data flow.

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