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auvi on May 10, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing FBLearner Flow: Facebook's AI Backbone

I wonder whether the "Flow" moniker was chosen based on Google's TensorFlow. It is hard not to notice for me.

x0x0 on May 10, 2016 | [–]

A flow is a common term for pieces of an execution dag. See eg cascading or azkaban.

http://docs.cascading.org/cascading/2.0/javadoc/cascading/fl...

http://submitteddenied.github.io/azkaban2/documents/2.1/crea...

googlryas on May 10, 2016 | [–]

Probably not... "flow" is an extremely generic term, and the first one that comes to mind when thinking about how to program/execute a DAG

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