Meltdown and Spectre: Exploits and Mitigation StrategiesJanuary 16, 2018 by Chris Stevens, Nicolas Poggi, Thomas Desrosiers and Reynold Xin in Engineering Blog In an earlier blog post , we analyzed the performance impact of Meltdown and Spectre on big data workloads in the cloud. In...
Meltdown and Spectre's Performance Impact on Big Data Workloads in the CloudJanuary 13, 2018 by Chris Stevens, Nicolas Poggi, Thomas Desrosiers and Reynold Xin in Engineering Blog Last week, the details of two industry-wide security vulnerabilities, known as Meltdown and Spectre , were released. These exploits enable cross-VM and cross-process...
Next Generation Physical Planning in Apache SparkApril 1, 2017 by Aaron Davidson, Eric Liang and Thomas Desrosiers in Engineering Blog Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. — Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981 magine a cold, windy...