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+title: Middleware 2025 Digest
+venue: Middleware
+year: 2025
+date: '2025-01-01'
+tags: []
+paper_count: 12
+draft: false
+---
+
+12 papers selected.
+
+---
+
+### Recipe: Hardware-Accelerated Replication Protocols: Rethinking Crash Fault Tolerance Protocols for Untrusted Cloud Environments
+
+*Dimitra Giantsidi, Emmanouil Giortamis, Julian Pritzi, Maurice Bailleu *et al.**
+
+**TL;DR** — Redesigns crash fault-tolerance protocols using hardware acceleration (TEEs/SmartNICs) to deliver replication with strong guarantees in untrusted cloud environments.
+
+---
+
+### Efficient Performance Guarantees for Function-as-a-Service with Cloud Allocators
+
+*Hai Duc Nguyen 0005, Andrew A. Chien*
+
+**TL;DR** — Introduces cloud-allocator abstractions that provide formal performance guarantees for serverless functions, addressing the unpredictability of shared FaaS infrastructure.
+
+---
+
+### Capybara: an Edge-Friendly Distributed Object Store for Diverse Serverless Functions
+
+*Xin Chen 0084, Manoj Prabhakar Paidiparthy, Chen Qian 0001, Liting Hu*
+
+**TL;DR** — Proposes a distributed object store purpose-built for edge serverless workloads, enabling diverse function runtimes to share state efficiently at the edge.
+
+---
+
+### EdgeConnector: Enabling Seamless and Efficient Cross-Cluster Device Access in Edge Environment
+
+*Yunna Cui, Liwei Shen, Bingkun Sun, Wente Lu *et al.**
+
+**TL;DR** — Presents a middleware layer that transparently bridges device access across Kubernetes clusters in heterogeneous edge deployments.
+
+---
+
+### FaaSImage: An Efficient Image Manager for FaaS
+
+*Abhisek Panda, Smruti R. Sarangi*
+
+**TL;DR** — Tackles cold-start latency in production FaaS platforms by redesigning container image management with fine-grained layer sharing and prefetching.
+
+---
+
+### Roadrunner: Accelerating Data Delivery to WebAssembly-Based Serverless Functions
+
+*Cynthia Marcelino, Thomas W. Pusztai, Stefan Nastic*
+
+**TL;DR** — Designs a high-throughput data-plane runtime that removes I/O bottlenecks for Wasm serverless functions through zero-copy data paths.
+
+---
+
+### Mocha: Scalable and Compliant Function Scheduling for Federated Serverless Computing
+
+*Yuqiu Zhang, Hans-Arno Jacobsen*
+
+**TL;DR** — Introduces a scheduler for federated serverless environments that satisfies data-residency and compliance constraints while maintaining high resource utilization.
+
+---
+
+### A Hybrid Runtime for Function-as-a-Service at the Edge
+
+*Adam Hall, Umakishore Ramachandran*
+
+**TL;DR** — Combines container and unikernel execution models in a single FaaS runtime to balance isolation, startup latency, and resource efficiency at edge nodes.
+
+---
+
+### Tiaccoon: Unified Access Control with Multiple Transports in Container Networks
+
+*Hiroya Onoe, Daisuke Kotani, Yasuo Okabe*
+
+**TL;DR** — Provides a service-mesh-style unified access-control plane that works across heterogeneous transport protocols within container network environments.
+
+---
+
+### MiAR-BFT: Efficient Leaderless Consensus Based on Multi-instance Asynchronous Running for Blockchain
+
+*Zhenyu Zhang, Xing Tong, Zhao Zhang 0009, Cheqing Jin*
+
+**TL;DR** — Proposes a leaderless BFT consensus protocol that runs multiple instances concurrently to improve throughput and reduce latency in blockchain middleware.
+
+---
+
+### ER-π: Exhaustive Interleaving Replay for Testing Replicated Data Library Integration
+
+*Provakar Mondal, Eli Tilevich*
+
+**TL;DR** — Systematically explores all message interleavings when testing replicated data libraries, surfacing integration bugs that random testing misses in distributed coordination code.
+
+---
+
+### Adjusted Objects: An Efficient and Principled Approach to Scalable Programming
+
+*Boubacar Kane, Pierre Sutra*
+
+**TL;DR** — Introduces adjusted objects as a programming abstraction that reconciles strong consistency with scalability, offering a practical alternative to CRDTs for distributed middleware.
+