Our winter set of papers! The schedule is also in our Google Calendar.

• C5: Cloned Concurrency Control that Always Keeps Up [VLDB’23]
  • Authors: Jeffrey Helt, Abhinav Sharma, Daniel J. Abadi, Wyatt Lloyd, Jose M. Faleiro
  • What: Enabling a more concurrent execution of copied/replicated operations at the followers.
  • When: December 14th
• The Case for Distributed Shared-Memory Databases with RDMA-Enabled Memory Disaggregation [VLDB’23]
  • Authors: Ruihong Wang, Jianguo Wang, Stratos Idreos, M. Tamer Özsu, Walid G. Aref
  • What: Disaggregated memory keeps compute and memory on separate devices, with compute nodes accessing memory over RDMA. That paper argues for a design of Shared-Memory Databases built over such disaggregated architecture.
  • When: December 21st
• Not that Simple: Email Delivery in the 21st Century [ATC’22]
  • Authors: Florian Holzbauer, Johanna Ullrich, Martina Lindorfer, Tobias Fiebig
  • What: Standards and protocols around email delivery and security. “Only 44.3% [of email providers] can also deliver emails via IPv6,” “encryption is mostly opportunistic, with 89.7% of providers accepting invalid certificates.”
  • When: January 11th
• Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation [VLDB’23]
  • Authors: Zhihan Guo, Xinyu Zeng, Kan Wu, Wuh-Chwen Hwang, Ziwei Ren, Xiangyao Yu, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Philip A. Bernstein
  • What: Optimized 2PC for better (tail) latency and less blocking with the help of compare-and-swap in the underlying disaggregated storage system.
  • When: January 18th
• How to fight production incidents?: an empirical study on a large-scale cloud service [SoCC’22]
  • Authors: Supriyo Ghosh, Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath
  • What: a study of hundreds of production incidents, identifying gaps (in automation), and suggesting better automation to aid in resolving/preventing such incidents in the future.
  • When: January 25th
• Method overloading the circuit [SoCC’22]
  • Authors: Christopher Meiklejohn, Lydia Stark, Cesare Celozzi, Matt Ranney, Heather Miller
  • What: Taxonomy and evaluation of various circuit-breaker (early termination of RPCs that overload the microservice) designs and their impact on service reliability.
  • When: February 1st
• DeepScaling: microservices autoscaling for stable CPU utilization in large scale cloud systems [SoCC’22]
  • Authors: Ziliang Wang, Shiyi Zhu, Jianguo Li, Wei Jiang, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Yangfei Zheng, Meng Yan, Xiaohong Zhang, Alex X. Liu
  • What: Optimization of resource (CPU) usage while preserving stringent service level objectives (SLOs).
  • When: February 8th
• LEGOStore: A Linearizable Geo-Distributed Store Combining Replication and Erasure Coding [VLDB’22]
  • Authors: Hamidreza Zare, Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Nader Alfares, Praneet Soni, Chetan Sharma
  • What: Replication + Erasure coding in WAN data store with low latency and cost
  • When: February 15th
• Design and evaluation of IPFS: a storage layer for the decentralized web [SIGCOMM’22]
  • Authors: Dennis Trautwein, Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Will Scott, Moritz Schubotz, Bela Gipp, Yiannis Psaras
  • What: InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)
  • When: February 22nd
• Owl: Scale and Flexibility in Distribution of Hot Content
  • Authors: Jason Flinn, Xianzheng Dou, Arushi Aggarwal, Alex Boyko, Francois Richard, Eric Sun, Wendy Tobagus, Nick Wolchko, Fang Zhou
  • What: Peer-to-peer distribution of large and hot objects at Meta with a centralized controller.
  • When: March 1st