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…
Odyssey: An End-to-End System for Pareto-Optimal Serverless Query Processing
Shyam Jesalpura, Shengda Zhu, Amir Shaikhha +2
Running data analytics queries on serverless (FaaS) workers has been shown to be cost- and performance-efficient for a variety of real-world scenarios, including intermittent query…
Reliable Replication Protocols on SmartNICs
M. R. Siavash Katebzadeh, Antonios Katsarakis, Boris Grot
Today's datacenter applications rely on datastores that are required to provide high availability, consistency, and performance. To achieve high availability, these datastores repl…
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…