Tag: DAG

Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) for Batch Processing

Introduction In the first and second parts of this series, we discussed what a DAG is and what abstract benefits it can offer you. In this article, we’ll talk about what benefits it can offer you in a batch processing system. We’ll use customer reviews as our example since retailers will often use these reviews to improve their recommendations for you …

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Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) for Queue Systems

Introduction In the first part of this series, we discussed what a DAG is and what abstract benefits it can offer you. In this article, we’ll talk about its specific implementation in a queuing system. For this article, I’ll use customer reviews as an example; they’re relatively straightforward, but you’d be surprised at the steps that can …

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Directed Acyclyic Graphs (DAGs) for Non-Interactive Processing

Introduction Since the introduction of the personal computer, interaction of users has become the default mode of developing applications, but as users come to expect more and more features with less and less processing time. If Amazon generated a new recommendation list on each page load, they wouldn’t have gotten very far in the retail space. Explanation …

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