Re: talk on interface design

2015-01-27 Thread Reynold Xin
Thanks, Andrew. That's great material. On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Andrew Ash wrote: > In addition to the references you have at the end of the presentation, > there's a great set of practical examples based on the learnings from Qt > posted here: http://www21.in.tum.de/~blanchet/api-desi

Re: talk on interface design

2015-01-26 Thread Andrew Ash
In addition to the references you have at the end of the presentation, there's a great set of practical examples based on the learnings from Qt posted here: http://www21.in.tum.de/~blanchet/api-design.pdf Chapter 4's way of showing a principle and then an example from Qt is particularly instructio

talk on interface design

2015-01-26 Thread Reynold Xin
Hi all, In Spark, we have done reasonable well historically in interface and API design, especially compared with some other Big Data systems. However, we have also made mistakes along the way. I want to share a talk I gave about interface design at Databricks' internal retreat. https://speakerde