Serverless computing promises an efficient, low-cost compute capability in cloud
environments. However, existing solutions, epitomized by open-source platforms such as …

The global scale and challenging requirements of modern cloud applications have led to the
development of complex, widely distributed, service-oriented applications. One enabler of …

Data serialization is critical for many datacenter applications, but the memory copies
required to move application data into packets are costly. Recent zero-copy APIs expose …

Serialization frameworks are a fundamental component of scale-out systems, but introduce
significant compute overheads. However, they are amenable to acceleration with …

The emerging paradigm of microservices decomposes online services into fine-grained
software modules frequently communicating over the datacenter network, often using …

Today, most communication between the NIC and software involves exchanging fixed-size
packet buffers. This packetized interface was designed for an era when NICs implemented …

Microsecond I/O will make data serialization a major bottleneck for datacenter applications.
Serialization is fundamentally about data movement: serialization libraries coalesce and …

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a widely used abstraction for cloud computing. The
programmer specifies type information for each remote procedure, and a compiler generates …

Efficient data streaming is essential for real-time data analytics, visualization, and machine
learning model training, particularly when dealing with high-volume datasets. Various …

zIO: Accelerating IO-Intensive Applications with Transparent Zero-Copy IO Page 1 This
paper is included in the Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems …