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samuell on Feb 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dataflow/Beam and Spark: A Programming Model Compa...

I'm much disturbed that the big G hijacked the dataflow term, to suddenly mean their specific - rather involved I must say - dataflow based programming model. The real dataflow [1] is a much broader term that doesn't outline specifics like programming semantics.

Seems as if they're trying to ride the wave of the recent upsurge in interest in dataflow in general (with sub-fields such as Flow-based programming, and implementations like Akka streams etc). That's OK, but hijacking a term for the whole field, is not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow

lern_too_spel on Feb 4, 2016 [–]

It's called Google Cloud Dataflow. Your complaint is like saying Google Cloud Platform is hijacking the meaning of Platform.

samuell on Feb 4, 2016 | [–]

Yes, but if you look at the use of the word in the linked post, you will see that plain "Dataflow" is almost exclusively used - even in the title.

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