A new set of papers for spring and early summer!
- Transactions Make Debugging Easy [CIDR’23]
- Authors: Qian Li, Peter Kraft, Michael Cafarella, Çağatay Demiralp, Goetz Graefe, Christos Kozyrakis, Michael Stonebraker, Lalith Suresh, and Matei Zaharia
- What: Everything is a database transaction, including debugging
- When: April 12th
- Perseus: A Fail-Slow Detection Framework for Cloud Storage Systems [FAST’23]
- Authors: Ruiming Lu, Erci Xu, Yiming Zhang, Xiamen University; Fengyi Zhu, Zhaosheng Zhu, Mengtian Wang, Zongpeng Zhu, Guangtao Xue, Jiwu Shu, Minglu Li, Jiesheng Wu
- What: Detecting fail-slow failures (i.e., machine/node slowdowns) in storage systems
- When: April 19th
- Developer’s Responsibility or Database’s Responsibility? Rethinking Concurrency Control in Databases [CIDR’23]
- Authors: Chaoyi Cheng, Mingzhe Han, Nuo Xu, Spyros Blanas, Michael D. Bond, and Yang Wang
- What: Study of 93 concurrency bugs in database applications
- When: April 26th
- SelfTune: Tuning Cluster Managers [NSDI’23]
- Authors: Ajaykrishna Karthikeyan, Nagarajan Natarajan, Gagan Somashekar, Lei Zhao, Ranjita Bhagwan, Rodrigo Fonseca, Tatiana Racheva, Yogesh Bansal
- What: Automatically tuning cluster manager parameters/setting for ever-changing cluster state.
- When: May 3rd
- FUSEE: A Fully Memory-Disaggregated Key-Value Store [FAST’23]
- Authors: Jiacheng Shen, Pengfei Zuo, Xuchuan Luo, Tianyi Yang, Yuxin Su, Yangfan Zhou, and Michael R. Lyu
- What: KV-store with memory-disaggregated storage and metadata
- When: May 17th
- ROLEX: A Scalable RDMA-oriented Learned Key-Value Store for Disaggregated Memory Systems [FAST’23]
- Authors: Pengfei Li, Yu Hua, Pengfei Zuo, Zhangyu Chen, and Jiajie Sheng
- What: RDMA-based disaggregated memory store with learned index
- When: May 24th
- Hydra: Serialization-Free Network Ordering for Strongly Consistent Distributed Applications [NSDI’23]
- Authors: Inho Choi, Ellis Michael, Yunfan Li, Dan R. K. Ports, and Jialin Li
- What: In-network ordering with distributed sequencers
- When: May 31st
- Stabilizer: Geo-Replication with User-defined Consistency [ICDCS’22]
- Authors: Pengze Li, Lichen Pan, Xinzhe Yang, Weijia Song, Zhen Xiao, Ken Birman
- What: High-performance geo-replication library with user-defined consistency and separated control and data planes
- When: June 7th
- Closing the B+-tree vs. LSM-tree Write Amplification Gap on Modern Storage Hardware with Built-in Transparent Compression [FAST’22]
- Authors: Yifan Qiao, Xubin Chen, Ning Zheng, Jiangpeng Li, Yang Liu, Tong Zhang
- What: Reducing B+-tress write amplification
- When: June 14th
- Real-time Data Infrastructure at Uber
- Authors: Yupeng Fu, Chinmay Soman
- What: Uber’s data infrastructure and scalability challenges it faces
- When: June 21st