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2025 1

  1. Resiliency at Scale: Managing Google’s TPUv4 Machine Learning Supercomputer

2024 6

  1. [Paper Review] ServiceRouter: Hyperscale and Minimal Cost Service Mesh at Meta
  2. [Paper Review] A Cloud-Scale Characterization of Remote Procedure Calls
  3. Gemini: Fast Failure Recovery in Distributed Training with In-Memory Checkpoints
  4. [Paper Review] XFaaS: Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta
  5. [Paper Review] Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention
  6. [Paper Review] Blueprint: A Toolchain for Highly-Reconfigurable Microservice Applications

2023 10

  1. 2023 and looking forward to 2024
  2. Systems Papers - Defcon: Preventing Overload with Graceful Feature Degradation
  3. Systems Papers - live tomorrow!
  4. Systems Papers - Towards an Adaptable Systems Architecture for Memory Tiering at Warehouse-Scale
  5. Systems Papers - TelaMalloc: Efficient On-Chip Memory Allocation for Production Machine Learning Accelerators
  6. Systems Papers - Perseus: A Fail-Slow Detection Framework for Cloud Storage Systems
  7. Systems Papers - Ambry: LinkedIn’s Scalable Geo-Distributed Object Store
  8. Systems Papers - Meta’s Next-generation Realtime Monitoring and Analytics Platform
  9. CS Conferences in 2023
  10. Systems Papers - Elastic Cloud Services: Scaling Snowflake’s Control Plane

2022 12

  1. Systems Papers - Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google’s Datacenter Network
  2. Systems Papers - Design and Evaluation of IPFS: A Storage Layer for the Decentralized Web
  3. Systems Papers - SDN in the Stratosphere: Loon’s Aerospace Mesh Network
  4. Systems Papers - Seven years in the life of Hypergiants' off-nets
  5. Systems Papers - Automatic Reliability Testing For Cluster Management Controllers
  6. Systems Papers - Metastable Failures in the Wild
  7. Systems Papers - Sundial: Fault-tolerant Clock Synchronization for Datacenters
  8. Systems Papers - Data-Parallel Actors: A Programming Model for Scalable Query Serving Systems
  9. Systems Papers - Druid: A Real-time Analytical Data Store
  10. Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database
  11. Systems Papers - The Ties that un-Bind: Decoupling IP from web services and sockets for robust addressing agility at CDN-scale
  12. Systems Papers - Shard Manager: A Generic Shard Management Framework for Geo-distributed Applications

2021 7

  1. Systems Papers - ghOSt: Fast & Flexible User-Space Delegation of Linux Scheduling
  2. Systems Papers - Kangaroo: Caching Billions of Tiny Objects on Flash
  3. Systems Papers - Faster and Cheaper Serverless Computing on Harvested Resources
  4. Log-structured protocols in Delos
  5. The Demikernel Datapath OS Architecture for Microsecond-scale Datacenter Systems
  6. Rudra: Finding Memory Safety Bugs in Rust at the Ecosystem Scale
  7. RAMP-TAO: Layering atomic transactions on Facebook’s online graph store