Dear Mark, Thank you! I agree that deploying Giraph easily can be extremely beneficial for researchers and software engineers as it will enable them to focus on developing algorithms instead of wasting time to set-up their infrastructure. And I believe that Giraph is more capable of handling production-scale workloads than Spark's GraphX (I am not the only one: https://code.facebook.com/posts/319004238457019/a-comparison-of-state-of-the-art-graph-processing-systems/ ) so it is a very nice addition to juju solutions.
I am relatively new with juju so I am not really sure how to answer your question. I understand that there is a trade-off between ease of use and efficiency, right? Now, the giraph charm heavily depends on the hadoop-processing bundle. Therefore, I think that such a paper would make sense if one could show that this trade-off is good, i.e., if the hadoop-processing bundle is efficient. Is it? If so, giraph could serve the purpose of providing interesting use-cases and I think it would be interesting to give it a go. I hope this makes sense :) Other than that, I think that it would be very interesting if you guys organized a tutorial that you could give in computer science conferences. For example, I attended the following tutorial a few months ago: http://cikm2016-sparktutorial.droppages.com/ It attracted a large audience, and a lot of the attendees had come prepared (they had installed what was needed to get a hands-on experience). If they did a tutorial for Spark why not doing one for Juju as well? I have watched two talks about juju and I've seen people stand amazed when realizing how easy and intuitive it is to handle complex deployments with it. With so many charms I am sure that there are plenty of things to showcase, and doing it in a tutorial instead of a talk, would result in increased user engagement. --Panagiotis 2017-03-03 13:53 GMT+02:00 Mark Shuttleworth <m...@ubuntu.com>: > Hi Panagiotis > > Congratulations on getting giraf into the curated set! I think it's an > exciting new capability for people working with webs of linked data, so > making it really easy to deploy and operate is a very valuable > contribution. It took a long time for giraf to mature but it's now one > of those things that a lot of large data sets would benefit from. Is it > worth presenting a paper on operating it efficiently with charms? > > Mark > > On 03/03/17 09:25, Panagiotis Liakos wrote: >> Yesterday the giraph charm I've been working on the last weeks was >> promulgated to: >> https://jujucharms.com/giraph/ >> >> I would just like to express my gratitude towards Konstantinos, Kevin, >> and Merlijn for their extremely valuable help! >> >> I hope that the charm is useful to many juju enthusiasts and I will do >> my best to make it better with time! >> >> Thank you!!! > > -- Juju mailing list Juju@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju
