3 papers
cs.DB2026
Avoiding Thread Stalls and Switches in Key-Value Stores: New Latch-Free Techniques and More
David Lomet, Rui Wang
A significant impediment to high performance in key-value stores is the high cost of thread switching or stalls. While there are many sources for this, a major one is the contentio…
cs.SE2025
Rethinking the Evaluation of Microservice RCA with a Fault Propagation-Aware Benchmark
Aoyang Fang, Songhan Zhang, Yifan Yang +7
While cloud-native microservice architectures have revolutionized software development, their inherent operational complexity makes failure Root Cause Analysis (RCA) a critical yet…
cs.NI2024
Do Data Center Network Metrics Predict Application-Facing Performance?
Brian Chang, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Rui Wang +2
Applications that run in large-scale data center networks (DCNs) rely on the DCN's ability to deliver application requests in a performant manner. DCNs expose a complex design and…