As applications and operating systems are becoming more complex, the last decade has
seen the rise of many tracing tools all across the software stack. This article presents a …

We present Recipe, a principled approach for converting concurrent DRAM indexes into
crash-consistent indexes for persistent memory (PM). The main insight behind Recipe is that …

The conventional wisdom is that aggressive networking requirements, such as high packet
rates for small messages and microsecond-scale tail latency, are best addressed outside the …

Indexes can improve query-processing performance by avoiding full table scans. Although
traditional indexes (eg, B+-tree) have been widely used, learned indexes are proposed to …

Published in 1996, Richard Jones's Garbage Collection was a milestone book in the area of
automatic memory management. Its widely acclaimed successor, The Garbage Collection …

Lock-free objects offer significant performance and reliability advantages over conventional
lock-based objects. However, the lack of an efficient portable lock-free method for the …

Dynamic memory management on GPUs is generally understood to be a challenging topic.
On current GPUs, hundreds of thousands of threads might concurrently allocate new …

Virtual machines in the cloud typically run existing general-purpose operating systems such
as Linux. We notice that the cloud's hypervisor already provides some features, such as …

Lock-free (non-blocking) shared data structures promise more robust performance and
reliability than conventional lock-based implementations. However, all prior lock-free …

Elastic scaling is a central promise of NFV but has been hard to realize in practice. The
difficulty arises because most Network Functions (NFs) are stateful and this state need to be …