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 …

After nearly a decade of anticipation, scalable nonvolatile memory DIMMs are finally
commercially available with the release of Intel's Optane DIMM. This new nonvolatile DIMM …

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

Emerging hardware like persistent memory (PM) and high-speed NICs are promising to
build efficient key-value stores. However, we observe that the small-sized access pattern in …

Many datacenters and clouds manage storage systems separately from computing services
for better manageability and resource utilization. These existing disaggregated storage …

Programmable switches have been touted as an attractive alternative for deploying network
functions (NFs) such as network address translators (NATs), load balancers, and firewalls …

For the widely deployed ECN-based congestion control schemes, the marking threshold is
the key to deliver high bandwidth and low latency. However, due to traffic dynamics in the …

We propose an intuitive abstraction for a process to export its memory to remote hosts, and
to access the memory exported by others. This abstraction provides a simpler interface to …

Recently, there is an increasing interest in building data-center applications with RDMA
because of its low-latency, high-throughput, and low-CPU-utilization benefits. However …

There is currently an active debate on which RDMA primitive (ie, one-sided or two-sided) is
optimal for distributed transactions. Such a debate has led to a number of optimizations …