Challenges and opportunities: an in-depth empirical study on configuration error injection testing
Configuration error injection testing (CEIT) could systematically evaluate software reliability
and diagnosability to runtime configuration errors. This paper explores the challenges and …
and diagnosability to runtime configuration errors. This paper explores the challenges and …
Understanding and discovering software configuration dependencies in cloud and datacenter systems
A large percentage of real-world software configuration issues, such as misconfigurations,
involve multiple interdependent configuration parameters. However, existing techniques and …
involve multiple interdependent configuration parameters. However, existing techniques and …
An evolutionary study of configuration design and implementation in cloud systems
Many techniques were proposed for detecting software misconfigurations in cloud systems
and for diagnosing unintended behavior caused by such misconfigurations. Detection and …
and for diagnosing unintended behavior caused by such misconfigurations. Detection and …
Balancing storage efficiency and data confidentiality with tunable encrypted deduplication
Conventional encrypted deduplication approaches retain the deduplication capability on
duplicate chunks after encryption by always deriving the key for encryption/decryption from …
duplicate chunks after encryption by always deriving the key for encryption/decryption from …
The dilemma between deduplication and locality: Can both be achieved?
Data deduplication is widely used to reduce the size of backup workloads, but it has the
known disadvantage of causing poor data locality, also referred to as the fragmentation …
known disadvantage of causing poor data locality, also referred to as the fragmentation …
Building a high-performance fine-grained deduplication framework for backup storage with high deduplication ratio
Fine-grained deduplication, which first removes identical chunks and then eliminates
redundancies between similar but non-identical chunks (ie, delta compression), could …
redundancies between similar but non-identical chunks (ie, delta compression), could …
From hyper-dimensional structures to linear structures: Maintaining deduplicated data's locality
Data deduplication is widely used to reduce the size of backup workloads, but it has the
known disadvantage of causing poor data locality, also referred to as the fragmentation …
known disadvantage of causing poor data locality, also referred to as the fragmentation …
Enlightening the {I/O} Path: A Holistic Approach for Application Performance
In data-intensive applications, such as databases and keyvalue stores, reducing the request
handling latency is important for providing better data services. In such applications, I/O …
handling latency is important for providing better data services. In such applications, I/O …
Diagconfig: Configuration diagnosis of performance violations in configurable software systems
Performance degradation due to misconfiguration in software systems that violates SLOs
(service-level objectives) is commonplace. Diagnosing and explaining the root causes of …
(service-level objectives) is commonplace. Diagnosing and explaining the root causes of …
ECFuzz: Effective Configuration Fuzzing for Large-Scale Systems
A large-scale system contains a huge configuration space because of its large number of
configuration parameters. This leads to a combination explosion among configuration …
configuration parameters. This leads to a combination explosion among configuration …