We present QuiCK, a queuing system built for managing asynchronous tasks in CloudKit, Apple's storage backend service. QuiCK stores queued messages along with user data in CloudKit, and supports CloudKit's tenancy model including isolation, fair ...

Microsoft aims to increase the efficiency of Azure SQL DB by maximizing the number of databases that can be hosted in a cluster. However, resource contention among customers increases when changing the configurations, policies, and features that control ...

Many common data analysis tasks, such as performing hyperparameter optimization, processing a partitioned graph, and treating a matrix as a vector of vectors, offer natural opportunities for nested-parallel operations, i.e., launching parallel ...