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Not Exactly! Fast Queries via Approximation Algorithms
Summary
Fangjin Yang, creator of Druid, shows how approximation algorithms can help system scale out linearly and process huge amount of data quickly with small memory footprint.
Bio
Fangjin Yang is one of the main committers to the open source Druid project and one first developers at Metamarkets, a San Francisco based data startup, where he is currently a lead engineer.
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