Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 web worker migration, Jeong et al., SoCC'19 [^1] This paper caught my eye for its combination of an intriguing idea (opportunistic offload of computation from mobile devices to the edge) and the elegance of the way the web worker interface supports … Continue reading Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 Web Worker migration
Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions
Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions, Zhang et al., SoCC'19 "Narrowing the gap" was runner-up in the SoCC'19 best paper awards. While being motivated by serverless use cases, there's nothing especially serverless about the key-value store, Shredder, this paper reports on. Shredder's novelty lies in a new implementation of an … Continue reading Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions
Reverb: speculative debugging for web applications
Reverb: speculative debugging for web applications, Netravali & Mickens, SOCC'19 This week we'll be looking at a selection of papers from the 2019 edition of the ACM Symposium of Cloud Computing (SoCC). First up is Reverb, which won a best paper award for its record and replay debugging framework that accommodates speculative edits (i.e., candidate … Continue reading Reverb: speculative debugging for web applications
Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages (Part II)
Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages, Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015 This is part 2 of our look at Allspaw's 2015 master thesis (here's part 1). Today we'll be digging into the analysis of an incident that took place at Etsy on December 4th, 2014. 1:00pm Eastern Standard … Continue reading Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages (Part II)
Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages (Part 1)
Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages, Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University, 2015 Following on from the STELLA report, today we're going back to the first major work to study the human and organisational side of incident management in business-critical Internet services: John Allspaw's 2015 Masters thesis. The document runs … Continue reading Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages (Part 1)
STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity
STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity, Woods 2017, Coping with Complexity workshop "Coping with complexity" is about as good a three-word summary of the systems and software challenges facing us over the next decade as I can imagine. Today's choice is a report from a 2017 workshop convened with that title, … Continue reading STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity
Synthesizing data structure transformations from input-output examples
Synthesizing data structure transformations from input-output examples, Feser et al., PLDI'15 The Programmatically Interpretable Reinforcement Learning paper that we looked at last time out contained this passing comment coupled with a link to today's paper choice: It is known from prior work that such [functional] languages offer natural advantages in program synthesis. That certainly caught … Continue reading Synthesizing data structure transformations from input-output examples
