SE-Radio Episode 260: Haoyuan Li on Alluxio

Jeff Meyerson talks to Haoyuan Li about Alluxio, a memory-centric
distributed storage system. The cost of memory and disk capacity
are both decreasing every year–but only the throughput of memory
is increasing exponentially. This trend is driving opportunity in
the space of big data processing. Alluxio is an open source,
memory-centric, distributed, and reliable storage system enabling
data sharing across clusters at memory speed. Alluxio was
formerly known as Tachyon. Haoyuan is the creator of Alluxio.
Haoyuan was a member of the Berkeley AMPLab, which is the same
research facility from which Apache Mesos and Apache Spark were
born. In this episode, we discuss Alluxio, Spark, Hadoop, and the
evolution of the data center software architecture.