In recent years, configuration errors (ie, misconfigurations) have become one of the
dominant causes of system failures, resulting in many severe service outages and …

Deep learning applications become increasingly popular in important domains such as self-
driving systems and facial identity systems. Defective deep learning applications may lead to …

We conducted a cloud outage study (COS) of 32 popular Internet services. We analyzed
1247 headline news and public post-mortem reports that detail 597 unplanned outages that …

Rust is a young programming language designed for systems software development. It aims
to provide safety guarantees like high-level languages and performance efficiency like low …

Flash storage has become the mainstream destination for storage users. However, SSDs do
not always deliver the performance that users expect. The core culprit of flash performance …

Context: Bug reports record issues found during software development and maintenance. A
high-impact bug report (HBR) describes an issue that can cause severe damage once …

Configuration problems are not only prevalent, but also severely impair the reliability of
today's system software. One fundamental reason is the ever-increasing complexity of …

Bug benchmarks are used in development and evaluation of debugging approaches, eg
fault localization and automated repair. Quantitative performance comparison of different …

Hardware support for trusted execution in modern CPUs enables tenants to shield their data
processing workloads in otherwise untrusted cloud environments. Runtime systems for the …

Fail-slow hardware is an under-studied failure mode. We present a study of 114 reports of
fail-slow hardware incidents, collected from large-scale cluster deployments in 14 …