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."