Comment by quantumhobbit

I love this. I hope the 'COST' measurement takes off.

I'm not going to go as far as some in condemning the latest frameworks, but I do agree that they are often chosen with no concept of the overhead imposed by being distributed.

Is there anything similar comparing 'old school' distributed frameworks like MPI to the new ones like Spark. I'm curious how much of the overhead is due to being distributed, network latency and Amdel's law, versus the overhead from the much higher level, and more productive, framework itself.