This is a list of papers for the DistSys reading group Spring 2025 term. The schedule is also available on our Google Calendar.

• Occam’s Razor for Distributed Protocols [SoCC’24]
  • Authors: Ziliang Lai, Fan Cui, Hua Fan, Eric Lo, Wenchao Zhou, Feifei Li
  • What: a plug-and-play optimization strategy for distributed protocols
  • When: 02/13/2025
• OLTP Through the Looking Glass 16 Years Later: Communication is the New Bottleneck [CIDR’25]
  • Authors: Xinjing Zhou, Viktor Leis, Xiangyao Yu, Michael Stonebraker
  • What: Bottlenecks of modern (2024) OLTP systems.
  • When: 02/20/2025
• Databases in the Era of Memory-Centric Computing [CIDR’25]
  • Authors: Yannis Chronis, Anastasia Ailamaki, Lawrence Benson, Helena Caminal, Jana Gičeva, Dave Patterson, Eric Sedlar, Lisa Wu Wills
  • What: Another call towards memory disaggregation.
  • When: 02/27/2025
• Golgi: Performance-Aware, Resource-Efficient Function Scheduling for Serverless Computing [SoCC’23]
  • Authors: Suyi Li, Wei Wang, Jun Yang, Guangzhen Chen, Daohe Lu
  • What: Serverless function scheduling with a sprinkle of AI for more efficient resource provisioning.
  • When: 03/06/2025
• The Sunk Carbon Fallacy: Rethinking Carbon Footprint Metrics for Effective Carbon-Aware Scheduling [SoCC’24]
  • Authors: Noman Bashir, Varun Gohil, Anagha Belavadi Subramanya, Mohammad Shahrad, David Irwin, Elsa Olivetti, Christina Delimitrou
  • What: Metrics for quantifying the impact of computing on environment/climate
  • When: 03/27/2025
• Efficient Reproduction of Fault-Induced Failures in Distributed Systems with Feedback-Driven Fault Injection [SOSP’24]
  • Authors: Jia Pan, Haoze Wu, Tanakorn Leesatapornwongsa, Suman Nath, Peng Huang
  • What: fault injection to reproduce production system failures with external root causes, such as HW failures or dependency failures.
  • When: 04/03/2025
• FBDetect: Catching Tiny Performance Regressions at Hyperscale through In-Production Monitoring [SOSP’24]
  • Authors: Dong Young Yoon, Yang Wang, Miao Yu, Elvis Huang, Juan Ignacio Jones, Abhinay Kukkadapu, Osman Kocas, Jonathan Wiepert, Kapil Goenka, Sherry Chen, Yanjun Lin, Zhihui Huang, Jocelyn Kong, Michael Chow, Chunqiang Tang
  • What: Another performance regression paper from Meta, but this time using monitoring of live production systems instead of catching regressions with a testing suite.
  • When: 04/10/2025
• LazyLog: A New Shared Log Abstraction for Low-Latency Applications [SOSP’24]
  • Authors: Xuhao Luo, Shreesha G. Bhat, Jiyu Hu, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Aishwarya Ganesan
  • What: Shared log with delayed ordering, such that order is established after acking the log appends but before materializing them for readers
  • When: 04/17/2025
• Caerus: Low-Latency Distributed Transactions for Geo-Replicated Systems [VLDB’24]
  • Authors: Joshua Hildred, Michael Abebe, Khuzaima Daudjee
  • What: Low latency ordering protocol for deterministic transactional databases over WAN
  • When: 04/24/2025
• Zero-sided RDMA: Network-driven Data Shuffling for Disaggregated Heterogeneous Cloud DBMSs [SIGMOD’24]
  • Authors: Matthias Jasny, Lasse Thostrup, Sajjad Tamimi, Andreas Koch, Zsolt István, Carsten Binnig
  • What: RDMA with programmable switches in the network
  • When: 05/01/2025