Encoding, Fast and Slow - Low-Latency Video Processing Using Thousands of Tiny Threads
Innovative video processing system using cloud functions and parallel computing for low-latency editing and encoding of high-resolution videos, including 4K and VR content.
Cloning Credit Cards - A Combined Pre-play and Downgrade Attack on EMV Contactless
Reveals a novel attack on EMV contactless payment cards, allowing creation of functional clones with pre-played authorization codes for unauthorized transactions at any EMV contactless terminal.
Burnout and Ops
Strategies for preventing and recovering from burnout in infrastructure engineering, with insights on setting boundaries, improving work conditions, and maintaining long-term career sustainability.
Reliability When Everything Is a Platform - Why You Need to SRE Your Customers
Explore the concept of SREs taking joint operational responsibility for customer-built systems on platforms, addressing challenges and discussing future implications for SRE as a discipline.
Steal This Movie - Automatically Bypassing DRM Protection in Streaming Media
Explores a memory-based approach to bypass DRM protection in popular streaming services, demonstrating vulnerabilities in Amazon, Hulu, Spotify, and Netflix's content protection systems.
Learning in Situ - A Randomized Experiment in Video Streaming
Randomized trial of video-streaming algorithms reveals challenges for sophisticated schemes in real-world settings. New algorithm developed using in situ learning outperforms others.
TimeCrypt - Encrypted Data Stream Processing at Scale with Cryptographic Access Control
Scalable encrypted time series data processing with customizable access control, enabling secure analytics while preserving data confidentiality in cloud-based IoT and service applications.
Gryff - Unifying Consensus and Shared Registers
Unifying consensus and shared registers for geo-replicated storage with linearizability and low tail latency. Introduces carstamps for efficient ordering of reads and writes in distributed systems.
High Throughput Cryptocurrency Routing in Payment Channel Networks
Innovative routing solution for payment channel networks, introducing "Spider" to packetize transactions and use multi-path transport, enhancing throughput and efficiency in cryptocurrency payments.
NetTLP - A Development Platform for PCIe Devices in Software Interacting with Hardware
Explore NetTLP, a platform for developing PCIe devices that enables software-hardware interaction. Learn about its potential impact on datacenter networks and low-latency, high-bandwidth packet delivery.
SP-PIFO - Approximating Push-In First-Out Behaviors Using Strict-Priority Queues
Innovative packet scheduling technique using strict-priority queues to approximate PIFO behavior, enabling programmable scheduling at line rate and scale on existing hardware.
TCP ≈ RDMA - CPU Efficient Remote Storage Access with i10
Innovative remote storage stack i10 achieves RDMA-like performance on commodity hardware, saturating 100Gbps links with low CPU usage while allowing unmodified applications to use the kernel's TCP/IP stack.
ABC - A Simple Explicit Congestion Controller for Wireless Networks
Innovative congestion control protocol for wireless networks, offering improved throughput and lower delays compared to existing solutions. Easily deployable without changes to headers or devices.
FPGA-Accelerated Compactions for LSM Based Key-Value Store
Explore FPGA acceleration for LSM-tree key-value stores, improving compaction speed and system throughput while reducing CPU bottlenecks and enhancing energy efficiency in short KV storage scenarios.
InfiniCache - Exploiting Ephemeral Serverless Functions to Build a Cost-Effective Memory Cache
Innovative serverless-based object caching system offering cost savings, high data availability, and competitive performance for storage-intensive web applications.
How to Copy Files
Explores efficient file cloning techniques in BetrFS, introducing "nimble clones" that optimize performance and space usage through copy-on-abundant-write policy and write-optimized key-value store.
Strong and Efficient Consistency with Consistency-Aware Durability
Introduces consistency-aware durability for strong consistency in distributed storage. Demonstrates cross-client monotonic reads in ORCA, a modified ZooKeeper, offering improved performance over strongly consistent systems.
Gandalf - An Intelligent, End-To-End Analytics Service for Safe Deployment in Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructure
Intelligent analytics service for safe software deployment in large-scale cloud infrastructure, monitoring fault signals and assessing rollout impact to prevent widespread outages.
CarMap - Fast 3D Feature Map Updates for Automobiles
Explores crowd-sourced 3D map collection for autonomous vehicles, presenting CarMap's lean representation and efficient updating techniques to enable near real-time uploads over cellular networks.
Introduction to Client Side Caching in Ceph
Explore Ceph's client-side caching evolution, focusing on RBD storage policies and upcoming write-back cache implementation for SSDs and persistent memory to enhance distributed storage performance.
Millions of Tiny Databases
Innovative database system for cloud storage, optimizing availability and consistency through distributed architecture. Explores Physalia's design and applications in AWS, offering insights for distributed systems.