Abstract: Off-the-shelf x86 servers are widely deployed as middleboxes in edge and public clouds, such as cloud gateways and load balancers. They follow the “run-to-completion” model and achieve ...

Abstract: Existing load-balancing methods used in data center networks involve some shortcomings such as excessively large decision delays during reactions to microbursts and large overheads involved ...

As he discusses important matters of the day, of every day, subjects such as world peace and how best to make and promote that peace, Chad Ford strokes his beard, taking on the professorial appearance ...

It felt like half of the internet was dealing with a severe hangover on October 20. A severe Amazon Web Services outage took out many, many websites, apps, games and other services that rely on Amazon ...

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For users, few things are more frustrating than encountering unavailable services or unexpected downtime. Load balancing significantly reduces these occurrences through its built-in redundancy and ...

Buried inside the news from the VMware Explore event were a series of security related updates. The big headline was the expansion of security for AI, but there is more to the story. A core element of ...

The days of MLB teams throwing out elite starters every week for long outings are becoming rarer. Veteran pitchers like former Detroit Tiger Justin Verlander watch teams get more conservative with how ...

router for data-driven, workload-aware scheduling. Our router distributes queries across LLM instances by using a trainable responselength predictor and a novel formulation for estimating the impact ...