Enabling hyperscale web services

Abstract

Modern web services such as social media, online messaging, and web search support billions of users, requiring data centers that scale to hundreds of thousands of servers, i.e., hyperscale. The key challenge in enabling hyperscale web services arise from (1) an unprecedented growth in data, users, and service functionality and (2) a decline in hardware performance scaling. We highlight a dissertation’s contributions in bridging the software and hardware worlds to realize more efficient hyperscale services despite these challenges.