Production incidents in today's large-scale cloud services can be extremely expensive in
terms of customer impacts and engineering resources required to mitigate them. Despite …

Modern computer systems are highly configurable, with the total variability space sometimes
larger than the number of atoms in the universe. Understanding and reasoning about the …

Most modern software systems can be configured to fulfill specific customer requirements,
adapting their behavior as required. However, such adaptations also increase the need to …

The behavior of large systems is guided by their configurations: users set parameters in the
configuration file to dictate which corresponding part of the system code is executed …

Configuration changes are among the dominant causes of failures of large-scale software
system deployment. Given the velocity of configuration changes, typically at the scale of …

Software systems introduce an increasing number of configuration options to provide
flexibility, and support updating the options on the fly to provide persistent services. This …

XML configuration files are widely used in Android to define an app's user interface and
essential runtime information such as system permissions. As Android evolves, it might …

Misconfigurations are the major causes of software failures. Existing configuration validation
techniques rely on manually written rules or test cases, which are expensive to implement …

Artificial intelligence (AI) server infrastructure has been built to support AI applications and
handle data-intensive workloads. AI server infrastructure is the essential building blocks …

Automatic configuration tuning helps users who intend to improve software performance.
However, the auto-tuners are limited by the huge configuration search space. More …