Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystems tend to grow both in scale and complexity, as they
consist of a variety of heterogeneous devices that span over multiple architectural IoT layers …

Over the years, different meanings have been associated with the word consistency in the
distributed systems community. While in the'80s “consistency” typically meant strong …

Serverless computing offers the potential to program the cloud in an autoscaling, pay-as-you
go manner. In this paper we address critical gaps in first-generation serverless computing …

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms and" serverless" cloud computing are becoming
increasingly popular. Current FaaS offerings are targeted at stateless functions that do …

Fabric is a modular and extensible open-source system for deploying and operating
permissioned blockchains and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by the Linux …

The CAP theorem asserts that any networked shared-data system can have only two of three
desirable properties. However, by explicitly handling partitions, designers can optimize …

Online services distribute and replicate state across geographically diverse data centers and
direct user requests to the closest or least loaded site. While effectively ensuring low latency …

Over the last decade, there has been a tremendous growth in data-intensive applications
and services in the cloud. Data is created on a variety of edge sources, eg, devices …

We describe the design and implementation of Walter, a key-value store that supports
transactions and replicates data across distant sites. A key feature behind Walter is a new …

Large scale streaming systems aim to provide high throughput and low latency. They are
often used to run mission-critical applications, and must be available 24x7. Thus such …