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Designing Distributed Systems, 2nd Edition
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Designing Distributed Systems, 2nd Edition

by Brendan Burns
December 2024
Intermediate to advanced
220 pages
5h 59m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Part IV. Batch Computational Patterns

The preceding chapters described patterns for reliable, long-running server applications. This section describes patterns for batch processing. In contrast to long-running applications, batch processes are expected to only run for a short period of time. Examples of a batch process include generating aggregation of user telemetry data, analyzing sales data for daily or weekly reporting, or transcoding video files. Batch processes are generally characterized by the need to process large amounts of data quickly using parallelism to speed up the processing. The most famous pattern for distributed batch processing is the MapReduce pattern, which has become an entire industry in itself. However, there are several other patterns that are useful for batch processing, which are described in the following chapters.

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