With the widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of connected
devices is growing at an exponential rate, which is contributing to ever-increasing, massive …

Resource management in a cloud environment is a hard problem, due to: the scale of
modern data centers; the heterogeneity of resource types and their interdependencies; the …

We report on experiences with Swift congestion control in Google datacenters. Swift targets
an end-to-end delay by using AIMD control, with pacing under extreme congestion. With …

The microservice architecture is a popular software engineering approach for building
flexible, large-scale online services. Serverless functions, or function as a service (FaaS) …

Homa is a new transport protocol for datacenter networks. It provides exceptionally low
latency, especially for workloads with a high volume of very short messages, and it also …

Modern datacenter networks provide very high capacity via redundant Clos topologies and
low switch latency, but transport protocols rarely deliver matching performance. We present …

Datacenter transports aim to deliver low latency messaging together with high throughput.
We show that simple packet delay, measured as round-trip times at hosts, is an effective …

User-facing, latency-sensitive services, such as websearch, underutilize their computing
resources during daily periods of low traffic. Reusing those resources for other tasks is rarely …

We present SWAN, a system that boosts the utilization of inter-datacenter networks by
centrally controlling when and how much traffic each service sends and frequently re …

In this paper we present pFabric, a minimalistic datacenter transport design that provides
near theoretically optimal flow completion times even at the 99th percentile for short flows …