Modern web services use in-memory caching extensively to increase throughput and reduce
latency. There have been several workload analyses of production systems that have fueled …

We present NetCache, a new key-value store architecture that leverages the power and
flexibility of new-generation programmable switches to handle queries on hot items and …

Multi-tenancy in modern datacenters is currently limited to a single latency-critical,
interactive service, running alongside one or more low-priority, best-effort jobs. This limits …

It is commonly believed that datacenter networking software must sacrifice generality to
attain high performance. The popularity of specialized distributed systems designed …

In recent years, spurred on by the development and availability of programmable NICs, end
hosts have increasingly become the enforcement point for core network functions such as …

Coordination services are a fundamental building block of modern cloud systems, providing
critical functionalities like configuration management and distributed locking. The major …

Non-volatile memory (NVM) as persistent memory is expected to substitute or complement
DRAM in memory hierarchy, due to the strengths of non-volatility, high density, and near …

Performance of in-memory key-value store (KVS) continues to be of great importance as
modern KVS goes beyond the traditional object-caching workload and becomes a key …

Cloud providers such as Amazon and Microsoft have begun to support on-demand FPGA
acceleration in the cloud, and hardware vendors will support FPGAs in future processors. At …

Web services rely on caching at nearly every layer of the system architecture. Commonly,
each cache is implemented and maintained independently by a distinct team and is highly …