Author: adriancolyer

Venture Partner with Accel in London, author of 'The Morning Paper'

Automating chaos experiments in production

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Automating chaos experiments in production Basiri et al., ICSE 2019 Are you ready to take your system assurance programme to the next level? This is a fascinating paper from members of Netflix’s Resilience Engineering team describing their chaos engineering initiatives: automated controlled experiments designed to verify hypotheses about how the system should behave under gray … Continue reading Automating chaos experiments in production

One SQL to rule them all: an efficient and syntactically idiomatic approach to management of streams and tables

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One SQL to rule them all: an efficient and syntactically idiomatic approach to management of streams and tables Begoli et al., SIGMOD'19 In data processing it seems, all roads eventually lead back to SQL! Today’s paper choice is authored by a collection of experts from the Apache Beam, Apache Calcite, and Apache Flink projects, outlining … Continue reading One SQL to rule them all: an efficient and syntactically idiomatic approach to management of streams and tables

Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut

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Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut Barham & Isard, HotOS'19 In this paper we argue that systems for numerical computing are stuck in a local basin of performance and programmability. Systems researchers are doing an excellent job improving the performance of 5-year old benchmarks, but gradually making it harder to explore innovative machine … Continue reading Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut

Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box

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Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box Aguilera et al., HotOS'19 Last time out we looked at some of the trade-offs between RInKs and LInKs, and the advantages of local in-memory data structures. There’s another emerging option that we didn’t talk about there: the use of far-memory, memory attached to the network that … Continue reading Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box

Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

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Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone Adya et al., HotOS'19 No controversy here! Adya et al. would like you to stop using Memcached and Redis, and start building 11-factor apps. Factor VI in the 12-factor app manifesto, "Execute the app as one or more stateless processes," to be dropped and … Continue reading Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds

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Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS'19 It’s hard to define good SLOs, especially when outcomes aren’t fully under the control of any single party. The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google1! John Wilkes was also one … Continue reading Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds

A case for managed and model-less inference serving

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A case for managed and model-less inference serving Yadwadkar et al., HotOS'19 HotOS’19 is presenting me with something of a problem as there are so many interesting looking papers in the proceedings this year it’s going to be hard to cover them all! As a transition from the SysML papers we’ve been looking at recently, … Continue reading A case for managed and model-less inference serving