Systems Papers
By Micah Lerner
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Systems Papers - Faster and Cheaper Serverless Computing on Harvested Resources
This week’s paper review, Faster and Cheaper Serverless Computing on Harvested Resources, evaluates running serverless workloads on dynamically resizing virtual machines, called Harvest VMs. Harvest VMs are able to shrink and expand to use unclaimed resources…
Log-structured protocols in Delos
Hello new and old subscribers!This week’s paper review, Log-structured Protocols in Delos discusses a critical component of Facebook’s system for storing control plane data, like scheduler metadata and configuration - according to the authors, Delos is replac…
The Demikernel Datapath OS Architecture for Microsecond-scale Datacenter Systems
Hello new and old subscribers!This week's paper review is The Demikernel Datapath OS Architecture for Microsecond-scale Datacenter Systems. It is one in a series we will be reading from SOSP.Demikernel is an operating systems architecture designed for an age …
Rudra: Finding Memory Safety Bugs in Rust at the Ecosystem Scale
Hello new and old subscribers!This week's paper is Rudra: Finding Memory Safety Bugs in Rust at the Ecosystem Scale. Rudra is a system for finding memory safety bugs in code written with the Rust programming language. While the language is well known for its …
RAMP-TAO: Layering atomic transactions on Facebook’s online graph store
Hello new and old subscribers,