5 papers
Spandana: Reconciling Strict SLOs with Low Cost under Fine-Grained Load Fluctuations
Dilina Dehigama, Shyam Jesalpura, Zeyu Xu +4
Cloud-based online services face significant sub-second load fluctuations while needing to meet strict Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Cluster operators often over-provision resou…
Flare: Leveraging Serverless Elasticity to Absorb Microservice Load Spikes
Dilina Dehigama, Shyam Jesalpura, David Schall +4
Online services strive to maintain application responsiveness even when the traffic is unpredictable and fluctuating. Today's online services are commonly deployed as chains of mic…
Tyche: Composable Isolation as a Foundation to Manage Trust in the Cloud
Adrien Ghosn, Charly Castes, Neelu S. Kalani +3
Cloud workloads combine software components from different parties to process sensitive data. Each component has its own trust model - it must protect its assets from the rest of t…
SIRD: A Sender-Informed, Receiver-Driven Datacenter Transport Protocol
Konstantinos Prasopoulos, Ryan Kosta, Edouard Bugnion +1
Datacenter congestion control protocols are challenged to navigate the throughput-buffering trade-off while relative packet buffer capacity is trending lower year-over-year. In thi…
Shattering the Ephemeral Storage Cost Barrier for Data-Intensive Serverless Workflows
Dmitrii Ustiugov, Shyam Jesalpura, Mert Bora Alper +5
Serverless computing is a popular cloud deployment paradigm where developers implement applications as workflows of functions that invoke each other. Cloud providers automatically…