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Darby successfully defended her dissertation today! She is the lab’s first PhD student to finish her PhD.

Tony’s work on a dynamically tunable key-value storage engine (TurtleKV) was accepted to VLDB 2026! This paper explores how to utilize the write-memory dimensions of the RUM space to dynamically improve read or write performance. You can read the ArXiV version here.

Raja received a NSF CAREER Award! Thank you to NSF for supporting our lab’s work!

Darby and Max’s paper on “Systemizing and mitigating topological inconsistencies in Alibaba’s microservice call-graph data” was accepted to ICPE’24!

Sarah Abowitz will be spending the summer interning at Dynatrace working on observability and privacy. Congrats Sarah!

Our paper, “Lifting the veil on Meta’s microservice architecture: Analsyes of topology and request workflows,” was accepted to USENIX ATC’23. Congrats to Darby and Yuri!

Our lab has two posters in NSDI’23’s poster session. Congrats to Sarah, Tomislav, and Zhaoqi!

Darby is headed to Meta for an internship this summer.

Congrats, Darby!

Paper accepted to Journal of Systems Research (JSys’22)!

Our paper, "Identifying mismatches between microservice testbeds and industrial perceptions of microservices" was accepted to the Journal of Systems Research (JSys'22).

Paper accepted at SoCC’21!

Our paper, “Automating choices for performance problems in distributed applications with VAIF," was accepted at SoCC'21! Congrats to Mert Toslali and the rest of the team.

Thank you, Red Hat!

D.O.C.C. Lab award a gift from Red Hat to work on discovering motifs in distributed traces.

Welcome, Sarah Abowitz!

Sarah Abowitz joins the D.O.C.C. lab.

Welcome, Tomislav Zabcic-Matic!

Tomislav Zabcic-Matic joins the D.O.C.C. lab.