Traditionally, the development of computing systems has been focused on performance
improvements driven by the demand of applications from consumer, scientific, and business …

Abstract Modern Cloud Data Centers exploit virtualization for efficient resource management
to reduce cloud computational cost and energy budget. Virtualization empowered by virtual …

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

Cloud computing promises flexibility and high performance for users and high cost-efficiency
for operators. Nevertheless, most cloud facilities operate at very low utilization, hurting both …

Large-scale datacenters (DCs) host tens of thousands of diverse applications each day.
However, interference between colocated workloads and the difficulty to match applications …

Cloud applications are increasingly shifting from large monolithic services, to large numbers
of loosely-coupled, specialized microservices. Despite their advantages in terms of …

Performance unpredictability is a major roadblock towards cloud adoption, and has
performance, cost, and revenue ramifications. Predictable performance is even more critical …

There is growing incentive to reduce the power consumed by large-scale data centers that
host online services such as banking, retail commerce, and gaming. Virtualization is a …

Cloud applications are increasingly shifting from large monolithic services to complex
graphs of loosely-coupled microservices. Despite the advantages of modularity and …

Cloud computing offers users the ability to access large pools of computational and storage
resources on demand. Multiple commercial clouds already allow businesses to replace, or …