publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.

2024

  1. ICPE
    Systemizing and mitigating topological inconsistencies in Alibaba's microservice call-graph datasets
    Huye, Darby, Liu, Lan, and Sambasivan, Raja R.
    In ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering 2024

2023

  1. ATC
    Lifting the veil on {M}eta's microservice architecture: {A}nalyses of topology and request workflows
    Huye, Darby, Shkuro, Yuri, and Sambasivan, Raja R.
    In USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2023

2022

  1. JSys
    [SoK] Identifying Mismatches Between Microservice Testbeds and Industrial Perceptions of Microservices
    Seshagiri, Vishwanath, Huye, Darby, Liu, Lan, Wildani, Avani, and Sambasivan, Raja R
    Journal of Systems Research 2022
  2. OSR
    VAIF: Variance-driven Automated Instrumentation Framework
    Toslali, Mert, Ates, Emre, Huye, Darby, Zhang, Zhaoqi, Liu, Lan, Puterman, Samantha, Coskun, Ayse K, and Sambasivan, Raja R
    ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 2022

2021

  1. SoCC
    Automating instrumentation choices for performance problems in distributed applications with VAIF
    Toslali, Mert, Ates, Emre, Ellis, Alex, Zhang, Zhaoqi, Huye, Darby, Liu, Lan, Puterman, Samantha, Coskun, Ayse K., and Sambasivan, Raja R.
    In ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2021

2019

  1. BigData
    D3N: A multi-layer cache for the rest of us
    Kaynar, Emine Ugur, Abdi, Mania, Hajkazemi, Mohammad Hossein, Turk, Ata, Sambasivan, Raja R, Cohen, David, Rudolph, Larry, Desnoyers, Peter, and Krieger, Orran
    In IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) 2019
  2. SoCC
    An automated, cross-layer instrumentation framework for diagnosing performance problems in distributed applications
    Ates, Emre, Sturmann, Lily, Toslali, Mert, Krieger, Orran, Megginson, Richard, Coskun, Ayse K, and Sambasivan, Raja R.
    In ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) 2019

2017

  1. SIGCOMM
    Bootstrapping evolvability for inter-domain routing with D-BGP
    Sambasivan, Raja R., Tran-Lam, David, Akella, Aditya, and Steenkiste, Peter
    In ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) 2017

2016

  1. SoCC
    Principled workflow-centric tracing of distributed systems
    Sambasivan, Raja R., Shafer, Ilari, Mace, Jonathan, Sigelman, Benjamin H., Fonseca, Rodrigo, and Ganger, Gregory R.
    In ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2016
  2. TechReport
    Bootstrapping evolvability for inter-domain routing with d-bgp
    Sambasivan, Raja R., Tran-Lam, David, Akella, Aditya, and Steenkiste, Peter
    2016

2015

  1. HotNets
    Bootstrapping evolvability for inter-domain routing
    Sambasivan, Raja R., Tran-Lam, David, Akella, Aditya, and Steenkiste, Peter
    In ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets) 2015

2014

  1. TechReport
    So, you want to trace your distributed system? Key design insights from years of practical experience
    Sambasivan, Raja R., Fonseca, Rodrigo, Shafer, Ilari, and Ganger, Gregory R.
    2014

2013

  1. HotStorage
    Specialized storage for big numeric time series
    Shafer, Ilari, Sambasivan, Raja R, Rowe, Anthony, and Ganger, Gregory R
    In USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage (HotStorage) 2013
  2. TechReport
    Visualizing request-flow comparison to aid performance diagnosis in distributed systems
    Sambasivan, Raja R., Shafer, Ilari, Mazurek, Michelle L, and Ganger, Gregory R.
    2013
  3. InfoVis
    Visualizing request-flow comparison to aid performance diagnosis in distributed systems
    Sambasivan, Raja R, Shafer, Ilari, Mazurek, Michelle L, and Ganger, Gregory R
    IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 2013
  4. Dissertation
    Diagnosing performance changes in distributed systems by comparing request flows
    Sambasivan, Raja R.
    2013

2012

  1. TechReport
    Visualizing request-flow comparison to aid performance diagnosis in distributed systems
    Sambasivan, Raja R., Mazurek, Michelle L, and Shafer, Ilari
    2012
  2. HotCloud
    Automated diagnosis without predictability is a recipe for failure
    Sambasivan, Raja R, and Ganger, Gregory R
    In USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud) 2012

2011

  1. NSDI
    Diagnosing performance changes by comparing request flows
    Sambasivan, Raja R, Zheng, Alice X, De Rosa, Michael, Krevat, Elie, Whitman, Spencer, Stroucken, Michael, Wang, William, Xu, Lianghong, and Ganger, Gregory R
    In USENIX Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) 2011
  2. TechReport
    Automation without predictability is a recipe for failure
    Sambasivan, Raja R., and Ganger, Gregory R.
    2011

2010

  1. ATC
    A transparently-scalable metadata service for the ursa minor storage system.
    Sinnamohideen, Shafeeq, Sambasivan, Raja R, Hendricks, James, Liu, Likun, and Ganger, Gregory R
    In USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2010
  2. Patent
    Managing execution of database queries
    Krompass, Stepan, Kuno, Harumi Anne, Dayal, Umeshwar, Wiener, Janet, and Sambasivan, Raja R.
    2010
  3. TechReport
    Diagnosing performance problems by visualizing and comparing system behaviours
    Sambasivan, Raja R., Zheng, Alice X., Krevat, Elie, Whitman, Spencer, and Ganger, Gregory R.
    2010
  4. TechReport
    Diagnosing performance changes by comparing system behaviours
    Sambasivan, Raja R., Zheng, Alice X, Krevat, Elie, Whitman, Spencer, Stroucken, Michael, Wang, William, Xu, Lianghong, and Ganger, Gregory R.
    2010

2009

  1. CACM
    Relative fitness modeling
    Mesnier, Michael P., Wachs, Matthew, Sambasivan, Raja R., Zheng, Alice X., and Ganger, Gregory R.
    Communications of the ACM 2009

2007

  1. SIGMETRICS
    Modeling the relative fitness of storage
    Mesnier, Michael P., Wachs, Matthew, Sambasivan, Raja R., Zheng, Alice X., and Ganger, Gregory R.
    In ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS) 2007
  2. HotAC
    Categorizing and differencing system behaviours
    Sambasivan, Raja R, Zheng, Alice X, Thereska, Eno, and Ganger, Gregory R
    In USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing 2007
  3. FAST
    // Trace: Parallel trace replay with approximate causal events
    Mesnier, Michael P, Wachs, Matthew, Simbasivan, Raja R, Lopez, Julio, Hendricks, James, Ganger, Gregory R, and O’hallaron, David R
    In USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies 2007

2006

  1. IEEE Bulletin
    Early experiences on the journey towards self-* storage.
    Abd-El-Malek, Michael, Courtright II, William V, Cranor, Chuck, Ganger, Gregory R, Hendricks, James, Klosterman, Andrew J, Mesnier, Michael P, Prasad, Manish, Salmon, Brandon, and Sambasivan, Raja R
    IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 2006
  2. TechReport
    Improving small file performance in object-based storage
    Hendricks, James, Sambasivan, Raja R., Sinnamohideen, Shafeeq, and Ganger, Gregory R.
    2006
  3. TechReport
    Eliminating cross-server operations in scalable file systems
    Hendricks, James, Sinnamohideen, Shafeeq, Sambasivan, Raja R., and Ganger, Gregory R.
    2006

2005

  1. TechReport
    Ursa minor: Versatile cluster-based storage
    2005
  2. FAST
    Ursa minor: Versatile cluster-based storage
    Abd-El-Malek, Michael, Courtright II, William V, Cranor, Chuck, Ganger, Gregory R, Hendricks, James, Klosterman, Andrew J, Mesnier, Michael P, Prasad, Manish, Salmon, Brandon, and Sambasivan, Raja R
    In USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies 2005
  3. MASCOTS
    Replication policies for layered clustering of nfs servers
    Sambasivan, Raja R., Klosterman, Andrew J, and Ganger, Gregory R.
    In IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems 2005
  4. TechReport
    Selected project reports, spring 2005 advanced os \& distributed systems (15-712)
    Kim, Jangwoo Kim, Nurvitadhi, Eriko, Chung, Eric, Nizhnert, Alex, Biggadike, Andrew, Chamcham, Jad, Sridhar, Srinath, Stylos, Jeffrey, Zeilberger, Noam, Economou, Gregg, Sambasivan, Terrence, Shi, Elaine, Lu, Yong, Reid, Matt, Palekar, Amber, and Iyer, Rahul
    2005