The Internet has led to the creation of a digital society, where (almost) everything is
connected and is accessible from anywhere. However, despite their widespread adoption …

Edge computing is proposed as a technical enabler for meeting emerging network
technologies (such as 5G and Industrial Internet of Things), stringent application …

User-facing latency-sensitive web services include numerous distributed,
intercommunicating microservices that promise to simplify software development and …

Performance unpredictability is a major roadblock towards cloud adoption, and has
performance, cost, and revenue ramifications. Predictable performance is even more critical …

Cloud applications are increasingly shifting from large monolithic services to complex
graphs of loosely-coupled microservices. Despite the advantages of modularity and …

Maglev is Google's network load balancer. It is a large distributed software system that runs
on commodity Linux servers. Unlike traditional hardware network load balancers, it does not …

Debugging faults in complex networks often requires capturing and analyzing traffic at the
packet level. In this task, datacenter networks (DCNs) present unique challenges with their …

Software architecture is undergoing a transition from monolithic architectures to
microservices to achieve resilience, agility and scalability in software development …

Monitoring and troubleshooting distributed systems is notoriously difficult; potential problems
are complex, varied, and unpredictable. The monitoring and diagnosis tools commonly used …

As computation continues to move into the cloud, the computing platform of interest no
longer resembles a pizza box or a refrigerator, but a warehouse full of computers. These …