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+venue: EuroSys
+year: 2024
+papers:
+- title: 'Pronghorn: Effective Checkpoint Orchestration for Serverless Hot-Starts'
+  authors:
+  - Sumer Kohli
+  - Shreyas Kharbanda
+  - Rodrigo Bruno
+  - João Carreira
+  - Pedro Fonseca 0001
+  reason: "Demonstrates how carefully orchestrated checkpointing can eliminate cold-start latency in serverless runtimes, achieving near-instant hot-starts with negligible overhead."
+
+- title: Serialization/Deserialization-free State Transfer in Serverless Workflows
+  authors:
+  - Fangming Lu
+  - Xingda Wei
+  - Zhuobin Huang
+  - Rong Chen 0001
+  - Mingyu Wu 0001
+  - Haibo Chen 0001
+  reason: "Eliminates the dominant serialization cost in serverless function chaining by enabling direct in-memory state passing, yielding large end-to-end latency reductions."
+
+- title: 'SplitFT: Fault Tolerance for Disaggregated Datacenters via Remote Memory Logging'
+  authors:
+  - Xuhao Luo
+  - Ramnatthan Alagappan
+  - Aishwarya Ganesan
+  reason: "Proposes a principled fault-tolerance design for disaggregated datacenters that exploits the new memory-compute split to recover from failures with low overhead."
+
+- title: 'Puddles: Application-Independent Recovery and Location-Independent Data for Persistent Memory'
+  authors:
+  - Suyash Mahar
+  - Mingyao Shen
+  - TJ Smith
+  - Joseph Izraelevitz
+  - Steven Swanson
+  reason: "Provides transparent crash consistency and data relocation for persistent memory without requiring application changes, easing adoption of PM-backed storage."
+
+- title: 'Enoki: High Velocity Linux Kernel Scheduler Development'
+  authors:
+  - Samantha Miller
+  - Anirudh Kumar
+  - Tanay Vakharia
+  - Ang Chen 0001
+  - Danyang Zhuo
+  - Thomas E. Anderson
+  reason: "Enables safe, rapid iteration on Linux CPU schedulers by isolating scheduling logic in user space while keeping kernel integration, dramatically lowering the development barrier."
+
+- title: Transparent Multicore Scaling of Single-Threaded Network Functions
+  authors:
+  - Lei Yan 0003
+  - Yueyang Pan
+  - Diyu Zhou
+  - George Candea
+  - Sanidhya Kashyap
+  reason: "Automatically parallelizes unmodified single-threaded network functions across cores with correctness guarantees, delivering near-linear throughput scaling without code changes."
+
+- title: 'Hoda: a High-performance Open vSwitch Dataplane with Multiple Specialized Data Paths'
+  authors:
+  - Heng Pan
+  - Peng He 0003
+  - Zhenyu Li 0001
+  - Pan Zhang
+  - Junjie Wan
+  - Yuhao Zhou
+  - Xiongchun Duan
+  - Yu Zhang 0209
+  - Gaogang Xie
+  reason: "Redesigns the Open vSwitch dataplane with multiple specialized fast paths, achieving significant throughput improvements for cloud virtual networking."
+
+- title: SmartNIC Security Isolation in the Cloud with S-NIC
+  authors:
+  - Yang Zhou 0008
+  - Mark Wilkening
+  - James Mickens
+  - Minlan Yu
+  reason: "Introduces hardware-enforced security isolation for SmartNIC offload tasks in multi-tenant clouds, preventing cross-tenant attacks without sacrificing offload performance."
+
+- title: Finding Correctness Bugs in eBPF Verifier with Structured and Sanitized Program
+  authors:
+  - Hao Sun 0021
+  - Yiru Xu
+  - Jianzhong Liu
+  - Yuheng Shen
+  - Nan Guan
+  - Yu Jiang 0001
+  reason: "Systematically uncovers verifier logic bugs that can silently allow unsafe eBPF programs to execute in the kernel, with a structured fuzzing approach validated on the Linux eBPF verifier."
+
+- title: 'CSAL: the Next-Gen Local Disks for the Cloud'
+  authors:
+  - Yanbo Zhou
+  - Erci Xu
+  - Li Zhang
+  - Kapil Karkra
+  - Mariusz Barczak
+  - Wayne Gao
+  - Wojciech Malikowski
+  - Mateusz Kozlowski
+  - Lukasz Lasek
+  - Ruiming Lu
+  - Feng Yang
+  - Lilong Huang
+  - Xiaolu Zhang
+  - Keqiang Niu
+  - Jiaji Zhu
+  - Jiesheng Wu
+  reason: "Describes a production cloud local-disk system that replaces raw NVMe with a software-defined layer to deliver better performance, reliability, and operational flexibility at hyperscale."
+
+- title: 'Volley: Accelerating Write-Read Orders in Disaggregated Storage'
+  authors:
+  - Shaoxun Zeng
+  - Xiaojian Liao
+  - Hao Guo
+  - Youyou Lu
+  reason: "Addresses write-read ordering hazards in disaggregated storage by pipelining acknowledgements with read-side tracking, substantially reducing tail latency without weakening durability."
+
+- title: 'Erlang: Application-Aware Autoscaling for Cloud Microservices'
+  authors:
+  - Vighnesh Sachidananda
+  - Anirudh Sivaraman
+  reason: "Leverages application-level call-graph semantics to make autoscaling decisions that are both faster and more accurate than black-box reactive policies, cutting SLO violations in microservice deployments."
+
+- title: Automatic Root Cause Analysis via Large Language Models for Cloud Incidents
+  authors:
+  - Yinfang Chen
+  - Huaibing Xie
+  - Minghua Ma
+  - Yu Kang 0006
+  - Xin Gao 0017
+  - Liu Shi
+  - Yunjie Cao
+  - Xuedong Gao
+  - Hao Fan
+  - Ming Wen 0001
+  - Jun Zeng 0006
+  - Supriyo Ghosh
+  - Xuchao Zhang
+  - Chaoyun Zhang
+  - Qingwei Lin
+  - Saravan Rajmohan
+  - Dongmei Zhang 0001
+  - Tianyin Xu
+  reason: "Demonstrates an LLM-driven pipeline for automated cloud-incident root cause analysis deployed at Microsoft Azure, showing strong recall and significant reduction in on-call engineer effort."