At last, I can call myself a "PhD Candidate"!
December 24, 2017
On December 21, I have successfully defended my Thesis Proposal, titled: “To Distribute, To Drop, or To Divide, that is the question in Adaptive Stream Processing”. I am grateful for the advice and the feedback I received from my Thesis Committee, which consisted of:
In summary, my thesis’ states that truly adaptable streaming engines, need to approach partitioning, re-partitioning, and load shedding operations in a dynamic fashion. In addition, all techniques need to be employed because each comes with its advantages and shortcomings, and is more likely to fail under specific conditions. My work so far has lead to novel query migration protocols (SIGMOD ‘15, SIGMOD Rec. ‘17); new stream partitioning models (VLDB ‘17); and informed load shedding algorithms (coming soon).
I am excited to wrap up the remaining tasks and share the full details of my thesis.