User-facing services are now evolving towards the microservice architecture where a
service is built by connecting multiple microservice stages. Since the entire service is heavy …

Data serialization is critical for many datacenter applications, but the memory copies
required to move application data into packets are costly. Recent zero-copy APIs expose …

The global scale and challenging requirements of modern cloud applications have led to the
development of complex, widely distributed, service-oriented applications. One enabler of …

Responding to the" datacenter tax" and" killer microseconds" problems for memory-intensive
datacenter applications, diverse solutions including Smart NIC-based ones have been …

FlexTOE is a flexible, yet high-performance TCP offload engine (TOE) to SmartNICs.
FlexTOE eliminates almost all host data-path TCP processing and is fully customizable …

The emerging paradigm of microservices decomposes online services into fine-grained
software modules frequently communicating over the datacenter network, often using …

When writing a distributed application, conventional wisdom says to split your application
into separate services that can be rolled out independently. This approach is well …

Serverless computing is an increasingly attractive paradigm in the cloud due to its ease of
use and fine-grained pay-for-what-you-use billing. However, serverless computing poses …

Online services are decomposed into fine-grained software components that communicate
over the network using fine-grained Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs). Inter-server …

Network speeds grow quickly in the modern cloud, so SmartNICs are introduced to offload
network processing tasks, even application logic. However, typical multicore SmartNICs …