Public cloud providers seek to meet stringent performance requirements and low hardware
cost. A key driver of performance and cost is main memory. Memory pooling promises to …

User-facing latency-sensitive web services include numerous distributed,
intercommunicating microservices that promise to simplify software development and …

Cloud services have recently started undergoing a major shift from monolithic applications,
to graphs of hundreds or thousands of loosely-coupled microservices. Microservices …

Cloud applications are increasingly shifting from large monolithic services, to large numbers
of loosely-coupled, specialized microservices. Despite their advantages in terms of …

Cloud platform provides great flexibility and cost-efficiency for end-users and cloud
operators. However, low resource utilization in modern datacenters brings huge wastes of …

Multi-tenancy in modern datacenters is currently limited to a single latency-critical,
interactive service, running alongside one or more low-priority, best-effort jobs. This limits …

Scheduling plays a pivotal role in cloud computing systems. Designing an efficient
scheduler is a challenging task. The challenge comes from several aspects, including the …

Performance unpredictability is a major roadblock towards cloud adoption, and has
performance, cost, and revenue ramifications. Predictable performance is even more critical …

We describe the design and implementation of Protean--the Microsoft Azure service
responsible for allocating Virtual Machines (VMs) to millions of servers around the globe. A …

Cloud applications are increasingly shifting from large monolithic services to complex
graphs of loosely-coupled microservices. Despite the advantages of modularity and …