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The emerging edge services architecture promises to improve the availability and performance of web services by replicating servers at geographically distributed sites. A key chal...
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The basic system timer facilities used by applications and OS kernels for scheduling timeouts and periodic activities have remained largely unchanged for decades, while hardware a...
Simon Peter, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Roscoe, Paul ...
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