Publications

  • Identifying mismatches between microservice testbeds and industrial perceptions of microservices. Vishwanath Seshagiri and Darby Huye (co-first authors), Max Liu, Avani Wildani, Raja R. Sambasivan. Journal of Systems Research 2022 (JSys'22). [paper]

  • Emplacing New Tracing: Adding OpenTelemetry to Envoy. Alex Ellis. Masters Thesis. Tufts University. Boston, MA, February 2022. [paper]

  • Automating instrumentation choices for performance problems in distributed applications with VAIF. Mert Toslali, Emre Ates, Alex Ellis, Zhaoqi Zhang, Darby Huye, Lan Liu, Samantha Puterman, Ayse K. Coskun, and Raja R. Sambasivan. SoCC'21. Seattle, WA, November 2021. [paper, slides]

  • D3N: A multi-layer cache for the rest of us. Emine Ugur Kaynar, Mania Abdi, Mohammad Hossein Hajkazemi, Ata Turk, Raja R. Sambasivan, David Cohen, Larry Rudolph, Peter Desnoyers, and Orran Krieger. BigData '19. Los Angeles, CA, December 2019. [paper, slides]

  • An automated, cross-layer instrumentation framework for diagnosing performance problems in distributed applications. Emre Ates, Lily Sturmann, Mert Toslali, Orran Krieger, Richard Megginson, Ayse K. Coskun, Raja R. Sambasivan. SoCC'19. Santa Clara, CA, November 2019. [paper, slides]

  • Bootstrapping evolvability for inter-domain routing with D-BGP. Raja R. Sambasivan, David Tran-Lam, Aditya Akella, and Peter Steenkiste. SIGCOMM'17. Los Angeles, CA, August 2017. [paper, slides]

  • Principled workflow-centric tracing of distributed systems. Raja R. Sambasivan, Ilari Shafer, Jonathan Mace, Benjamin H. Sigelman, Rodrigo Fonseca, and Gregory R. Ganger. SoCC'16. Santa Clara, CA, October 2016. [paper, slides]

  • Visualizing request-flow comparison to aid performance diagnosis in distributed systems. Raja R. Sambasivan, Ilari Shafer, Michelle L. Mazurek, and Gregory R. Ganger. InfoVis'13. Atlanta, GA, October 2013. [paper, slides]

  • Diagnosing performance changes by comparing request flows. Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice X. Zheng, Michael De Rosa, Elie Krevat, Spencer Whitman, Michael Stroucken, William Wang, Lianghong Xu, and Gregory R. Ganger. NSDI'11. Boston, MA, March 2011. [paper, slides]