Big data applications have become increasingly popular with the appearance of cloud
computing and green computing. Therefore, internet service providers (ISPs) need to build …

The cloud phenomenon is quickly becoming an important service in Internet computing.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in cloud computing is one of the most significant and …

Loosely-coupled and light-weight microservices running in containers are replacing
monolithic applications gradually. Understanding the characteristics of microservices is …

Serverless computing is becoming increasingly popular, enabling users to quickly launch
thousands of shortlived tasks in the cloud with high elasticity and fine-grain billing. These …

Cloud applications are increasingly shifting from large monolithic services, to large numbers
of loosely-coupled, specialized microservices. Despite their advantages in terms of …

Resource management in a cloud environment is a hard problem, due to: the scale of
modern data centers; the heterogeneity of resource types and their interdependencies; the …

Elastic resource scaling lets cloud systems meet application service level objectives (SLOs)
with minimum resource provisioning costs. In this paper, we present CloudScale, a system …

Current debugging and optimization methods scale poorly to deal with the complexity of
modern Internet services, in which a single request triggers parallel execution of numerous …

Workload placement on servers has been traditionally driven by mainly performance
objectives. In this work, we investigate the design, implementation, and evaluation of a …

Virtualization can provide significant benefits in data centers by enabling virtual machine
migration to eliminate hotspots. We present Sandpiper, a system that automates the task of …