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 …

Configuration errors (ie, misconfigurations) are among the dominant causes of system
failures. Their importance has inspired many research efforts on detecting, diagnosing, and …

Vulnerability exploits remain an important mechanism for malware delivery, despite efforts to
speed up the creation of patches and improvements in software updating mechanisms …

The fast evolution pace for cloud computing software is on a collision course with our
growing reliance on cloud computing. On one hand, cloud software must have the agility to …

One of the distinguishing characteristics of software systems is that they evolve: new patches
are committed to software repositories and new versions are released to users on a …

Cloud systems are increasingly being managed by operation programs termed operators,
which automate tedious, human-based operations. Operators of modern management …

We present Code Phage (CP), a system for automatically transferring correct code from
donor applications into recipient applications that process the same inputs to successfully …

The broad landscape of new technologies currently being explored makes the current times
very exciting for computer systems research. The community is actively researching an …

Kee** machines updated is crucial for maintaining system security. While recent studies
have investigated the software updating practices of end users, system administrators have …

Failure of application operations is one of the main causes of system-wide outages in cloud
environments. This particularly applies to DevOps operations, such as backup …