CS2680 18-nov19

Reading Review for Class 18

This class’s readings are:

• Cornflakes

Your review should include both a summary of these papers, which discusses

• the problem the paper addresses
• the paper’s solution
• the evidence the paper provides that the solution was correct. Remember to keep in mind the historical context the papers discuss.

Your review should also discuss, after the summary:

• whether the problem the paper solved is an important one
• whether the solution was a good one
• whether the paper was fun or enjoyable to read.
• what questions you have about the paper, or which parts of the paper (if any) you found hard to understand.

You should answer the above questions in about one sentence each. The remainder of your review (about the below questions) should be about a page (~500 words) long.

Finally, for this week’s paper, please reflect on the following question:

The Cornflakes paper’s contribution is to significantly lower the threshold above which zero-copy serialization is worth it for datacenter applications. What factors might affect whether an application developer would choose to use this functionality?