In this paper we study the impact of sharing memory resources on five Google datacenter applications: a web search engine, bigtable, content analyzer, image stitching, and protoc...
Lingjia Tang, Jason Mars, Neil Vachharajani, Rober...
Dynamic typing is a barrier for JavaScript applications to achieve high performance. Compared with statically typed languages, the major overhead of dynamic typing comes from runt...
Process virtualization provides a virtual execution environment within which an unmodified application can be monitored and controlled while it executes. The provided layer of co...
Fast and effective distribution of software updates (a.k.a. patches) to millions of Internet users has evolved into a critical task over the last years. In this paper, we characte...
Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Milan Voj...
Performance of Web servers is critical to the success of many corporations and organizations. However, very few results have been published that quantitatively study the server be...