Picking the right cloud configuration for recurring big data analytics jobs running in clouds is
hard, because there can be tens of possible VM instance types and even more cluster sizes …

Due to their complexity, modern systems expose many configuration parameters which
users must tune to maximize performance. Auto-tuning has emerged as an alternative in …

Although many methods have been proposed to solve expensive optimization problems
(EOPs), they often consume hundreds of function evaluations (FEs) to find the optimal …

RocksDB is a general-purpose embedded key-value store used in multiple different settings.
Its versatility comes at the cost of complex tuning configurations. This paper investigates …

The variety of instance types available on cloud platforms offers enormous flexibility to match
the requirements of applications with available resources. However, selecting the most …

The rapid development of information technology has necessitated the management of large
volumes of data in modern society, leading to the emergence of NoSQL databases (eg …

A commonly encountered concept in probabilistic programming literature is that of a trace,
which is a record of all the random variables sampled during the program execution. Traces …

Revenue for data centers today is highly dependent on the satisfaction of their enterprise
customers. These customers often require various features to migrate their businesses and …