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