Foundations of Data Intensive Applications

Acknowledgments

This book presents the ideas and work of countless software engineers and researchers over many years. We thank them for their hard work that helped us to write this book. The open source software community has made data-intensive applications popular and easily accessible to the public. We would like to thank the Apache Software Foundation for producing some of the best open source communities that have built wonderful frameworks for data-intensive applications. Many other open source communities are building these amazing products; some notables ones are Pandas, Numpy, PyTorch, Tensorflow, OpenMPI, and Kubernetes.

Our thanks also go out to members of the digital science center at Indiana University, whose work has influenced the content of this research. We both had the privilege to work with our thesis advisor, Distinguished Professor Geoffrey C. Fox at Indiana University – Bloomington, who has been a key driving force behind high-performance data-intensive computing. The work we did with him was a great inspiration for the book.

We would like to thank Chathura Widanage, Niranda Perera, Pulasthi Wickramasinghe, Ahmet Uyar, Gurhan Gundez, Kannan Govindarajan, and Selahattin Akkas at the Digital Science Center of Indiana University. The work we did and the software we developed together were a great motivation for the book. We would like to thank Thejaka Kanewala for the wonderful conversations we had on data-intensive applications. We would like to thank Thejaka ...