Evolution of Cloud Performance Management since 2010s: Reflections on a Test-of-Time Award

Our work on cloud performance management was recently awarded the Test-of-Time award at the ACM/IFIP Middleware Conference held this December at Vanderbilt University. The award is given for a paper that appeared at the conference 10 years or so back and that is considered to have had the greatest impact on the field, be this […]

To Fuse Wisely in Serverless DAGs: A Sigmetrics Winner

This post gives a high-level view of our Sigmetrics 2022 paper, which was recently announced at the conference as the best paper winner. Ashraf Mahgoub, Edgardo Barsallo Yi (Purdue University), Karthick Shankar (CMU), Eshaan Minocha (Purdue University), Sameh Elnikety (Microsoft Research), Saurabh Bagchi, and Somali Chaterji (Purdue University). WISEFUSE: Workload Characterization and DAG Transformation for […]

SONIC: The Serverless Data Corraller

This is a high-level view of our work on serverless computing that has just been accepted to Usenix ATC 2021, plus some historical context for why we are where we are. And a look ahead at the rich problems that we still have to tame. Ashraf Mahgoub (Purdue University), Karthick Shankar (Carnegie Mellon University), Subrata […]