Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?
I highly recommend people give this paper a read. I think it points the way to a radical redesign of fundamental parts of the system stack over the next 5-10 years. If you work in systems and you aren’t thinking about this stuff, you’re about to be lapped.The Case for Learned Index Structures:https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01208v1.pdf