DOCC Lab Reading Group
Weekly reading group hosted by DOCC Lab at Tufts University. Held on Wednesdays 12-1pm. If you have any interest in attending (in-person or remote), reach out to me at lan [DOT] liu [AT] tufts [DOT] edu.
Date Presenter Paper Summary
10/16/24 Tony Astolfi Bootstrapping evolvability for inter-domain routing with D-BGP Summary
9/25/24 Max Liu LM-PACE: Confidence Estimation by Large Language Models for Effective Root Causing of Cloud Incidents Summary
9/4/24 Tony Astolfi DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System Summary
8/21/24 Max Liu "The Matthew Effect" by Robert Merton and “In science today, a genius never works alone,” by Athene Donald and “What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team,” by Charles Duhigg Summary
8/8/24 Zhaoqi(Roy) Zhang Buffer-based End-to-end Request Event Monitoring in the Cloud, NSDI '22 Summary
6/19/24 Tony Astolfi Autothrottle: A Practical Bi-Level Approach to Resource Management for SLO-Targeted Microservices, NSDI '24 Summary
6/6/24 Max Liu Fathom: Understanding Datacenter Application Network Performance, SIGCOMM '23 Summary
4/24/24 Tomislav Zabcic-Matic Trace-based Multi-Dimensional Root Cause Localization of Performance Issues in Microservice Systems, ICSE '24 Summary
4/10/24 Zhaoqi Zhang Lifting the veil on Meta's microservice architecture: Analyses of topology and request workflows, ATC '23 Summary
4/3/24 Max Liu A Cloud-Scale Characterization of Remote Procedure Calls, SOSP '23 Summary
3/27/24 Mona Ma Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems, SOSP '15 Summary
3/13/24 Darby Huye Argus: Debugging performance issues in modern desktop applications with annotated causal tracing, ATC '21 Summary
3/06/24 Tomislav Zabcic-Matic Understanding and Detecting Software Upgrade Failures in Distributed Systems, SOSP '21 Unavailable
2/21/24 Max Liu Unicorn: reasoning about configurable system performance through the lens of causality, EuroSys '22 Summary
2/14/24 Zhaoqi Zhang Sieve: Attention-based Sampling of End-to-End Trace Data in Distributed Microservice Systems, ICWS '21 Summary
2/07/24 Mona Ma LatenSeer: Causal Modeling of End-to-End Latency Distributions by Harnessing Distributed Tracing, SoCC '23 Summary
1/31/24 Darby Huye STEAM: Observability-Preserving Trace Sampling, ESEC/FSE '23 Summary
1/24/24 Tomislav Zabcic-Matic QoS-Aware and Resource Efficient Microservice Deployment in Cloud-Edge Continuum, IPDPS '21 Summary
12/06/23 Sarah Abowitz Watching the watchmen: Least privilege for managed network services, HotNets '21 Summary
11/29/23 Max Liu Blueprint: A Toolchain for Highly-Reconfigurable Microservices, SOSP '23 Summary
11/13/23 Zhaoqi Zhang Understanding host network stack overheads, SIGCOMM '21 Unavailable
11/01/23 Mona Ma The Mystery Machine: End-to-end Performance Analysis of Large-scale Internet Services, OSDI '14 Summary
10/16/23 Tomislav Z-M CLP: Efficient and Scalable Search on Compressed Text Logs Summary
10/11/23 Sarah Abowitz Detecting DoS Attacks in Microservice Applications: Approach and Case Study, LADC '22 Summary
10/04/23 Max Liu Automatic Policy Generation for Inter-Service Access Control of Microservices, USENIX Security '21 Summary
09/27/23 Zhaoqi Zhang Iron: Isolating Network-based CPU in Container Environments, NSDI '18 Summary
09/20/23 Mona Ma END-TO-END ARGUMENTS IN SYSTEM DESIGN Summary
09/13/23 Darby Huye µTune: Auto-Tuned Threading for OLDI Microservices, ODSI '18 Summary
08/24/23 Sarah Abowitz Summary of DEFCON '23 Summary
08/17/23 Zhaoqi Zhang Relational Debugging --- Pinpointing Root Causes of Performance Problems, OSDI '23 Unavailable
07/20/23 Darby Huye SampleHST: Efficient On-the-Fly Selection of Distributed Traces, on arxiv '22 Summary
07/13/23 Mona Ma Summary of OSDI & ATC '23 papers Summary
06/29/23 Tomislav Z-M Push-Button Reliability Testing for Cloud-Backed Applications with Rainmaker, NSDI '23 Summary
06/22/23 Sarah Abowitz Doing More with Less: Orchestrating Serverless Applications without an Orchestrator, NSDI '23 Summary
06/15/23 Zhaoqi Zhang Metastable Failures in the Wild, OSDI '22 Unavailable
06/08/23 Darby Huye Foxhound: Server-Grade Observability for Network-Augmented Applications, EuroSys '23 Summary