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MapReduce and the Programming Model That Made Cluster Computation Routine

Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat's MapReduce turned a narrow pair of user functions into a contract with a distributed runtime that handled partitioning, scheduling, data movement, and machine failure, allowing ordinary programmers to use thousands of cluster machines without writing a distributed scheduler.

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