Wide-area streaming analytics
Benjamin Heintz, Abhishek Chandra, Ramesh K. Sitaraman · 2013
To date, much research in data-intensive computing has focused on batch computation. Increasingly, however, it is necessary to derive knowledge from big data streams. As a motivating example, consider a content delivery network (CDN) such as Akamai [4], comprising thousands of servers in hundreds of globally distributed locations. Each of these servers produces a stream of log data, recording for example every user it serves, along with each video stream they access, when they play and pause streams, and more. Each server also records network- and system-level data such as TCP connection statistics. In aggregate, the servers produce billions of lines of log data from over a thousand locations daily.