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May 31, 2024 · Cloud Native

Optimizing I/O for Data‑Intensive Analytics in Cloud‑Native Environments: Insights from Uber Presto

This whitepaper examines the industry trend of moving data‑intensive analytics applications to cloud‑native environments, revealing how cloud storage cost models affect performance optimization, and presents case‑study findings from Uber’s Presto production workload that highlight fragmented I/O patterns and the financial impact of storage API calls.

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Optimizing I/O for Data‑Intensive Analytics in Cloud‑Native Environments: Insights from Uber Presto

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Dec 8, 2022 · Operations

Why Bigger Packages Lower Per‑Gram Costs: A Simple Economic Model

This article builds a straightforward mathematical model to explain how increasing package size reduces the per‑gram cost of products by accounting for production, packaging, and transportation expenses, revealing diminishing savings as packages become very large.

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Why Bigger Packages Lower Per‑Gram Costs: A Simple Economic Model

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Jul 15, 2022 · Operations

Can Iceberg Tugboats Beat Desalination? Modeling the Cost of Shipping Antarctic Ice

This study models the economic feasibility of transporting Antarctic icebergs by tugboat over 9,600 km to supply fresh water for the Persian Gulf, comparing the per‑cubic‑meter cost—including vessel rental, fuel consumption, melting rate, and ship speed—to the cost of seawater desalination.

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Can Iceberg Tugboats Beat Desalination? Modeling the Cost of Shipping Antarctic Ice