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This paper presents our design and experience with a microkernel-inspired approach to
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popularity. Existing remote memory techniques focus on the efficiency of a single application …

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Due to the intrinsically inefficient service provisioning in traditional networks, Network
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and run multiple containers in cloud environments. Kubernetes offers resource management …

Kubernetes is a very popular and fast-growing container orchestration platform that
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In resource-constrained cloud systems, eg, at the network edge or in private clouds, it is
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