Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a widely used abstraction for cloud computing. The
programmer specifies type information for each remote procedure, and a compiler generates …

Datacenter applications are often structured as many interconnected microservices, and the
service mesh has become a popular approach to route RPC traffic among services. This …

In recent years, service mesh frameworks have gained significant popularity in building
microservice-based applications. A key component of these frameworks is a proxy in each …

The layered Internet architecture, while far from perfect, has provided a global and neutral
platform for the development of a wide range of applications. However, this core architecture …

With the rise of microservices, the execution environment of many cloud applications has
become a set of virtual machines or containers connected by a flexible and feature-rich …

Cyber deception techniques that are tightly intertwined with applications pose significant
technical challenges in production systems. Security measures are usually the responsibility …

Current serverless platforms introduce non-trivial overheads when chaining and
orchestrating loosely-coupled microservices. Containerized function runtimes are also …

Network functions (NFs) have become pervasive in data centers as a means to monitor and
transform traffic as it flows between services. Softwarization of the network has further added …

Modern multi-threaded systems are highly complex. This makes their behavior difficult to
understand. Developers frequently capture behavior in the form of program traces and then …

Recently, some application (L7) processing has been moved to the network stack (including
proxies) as a way to provide a common and application-agnostic interface for security …