CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: APSys 2024

Kyoto, Japan on September 4-5, 2024 URL: https://apsys2024.github.io/ Registration: https://apsys2024.github.io/registration/ Building on the success of its predecessors, the 15th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2024) will continue to be a lively forum for systems researchers and practitioners across the world to meet, interact, and collaborate with their peers from the Asia/Pacific region. APSys 2024 … Read more

The journey of real-life industry work behind an OSDI paper — global capacity management for millions of servers

As a new hire at Meta (formerly Facebook) in 2020, I was unbelievably fortunate to be entrusted with the question of how we should manage the company’s global server capacity at the scale of millions of servers. I was entrusted with this work despite having zero background in capacity management, and against all odds, not … Read more

Revisiting Distributed Memory in the CXL Era

Message Passing V.S Distributed Shared Memory As Moore’s Law slows down, horizontal scaling has become the predominant strategy for enhancing system performance. Nonetheless, the inherent complexities of distributed programming present substantial challenges in creating efficient, correct, and resilient systems. Streamlining this process remains a fundamental objective of distributed programming frameworks. In the realm of distributed … Read more