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

Cloud services have recently started undergoing a major shift from monolithic applications,
to graphs of hundreds or thousands of loosely-coupled microservices. Microservices …

Multi-tenancy in modern datacenters is currently limited to a single latency-critical,
interactive service, running alongside one or more low-priority, best-effort jobs. This limits …

Cloud services have recently undergone a shift from monolithic applications to
microservices, with hundreds or thousands of loosely-coupled microservices comprising the …

Amdahl's law for tail latency Page 1 AUGUST 2018 | VOL. 61 | NO. 8 | COMMUNICATIONS
OF THE ACM 65 TRANSLATING THE IMPACT of Amdahl’s Law on tail latency provides new …

Heterogeneity has grown in popularity both at the core and server level as a way to improve
both performance and energy efficiency. However, despite these benefits, scheduling …

We are entering an era of “killer microseconds” in data center applications. Killer
microseconds refer to μs-scale “holes” in CPU schedules caused by stalls to access fast I/O …

Cloud computing allows several applications to share physical resources, yielding rapid
provisioning and improving hardware utilization. However, multiple applications contending …

As Machine Learning (ML) becomes pervasive in the era of artificial intelligence, ML specific
tools and frameworks are required for architectural research. This paper introduces …

Managing tail latency is a primary challenge in designing large-scale Internet services.
Queuing is a major contributor to end-to-end tail latency, wherein nominal tasks are …