Dhalion in Action: Automatic Management of Streaming Applications

Summary: Policy-driven automation for streaming apps via Dhalion; observes behavior and auto-tunes resources to meet performance objectives. Demonstrates modular, extensible policy design enabling automatic adaptation to load variations and failures with no manual intervention. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11896
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 5.2434488e-05
Overall Rank: 9,637 | 33.89%
DOI: 10.14778/3229863.3236257

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ashvin Agrawal (Microsoft)
2. Avrilia Floratou (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{agrawal_vldb18,
        title = {{Dhalion in Action: Automatic Management of Streaming Applications}},
        author = {Agrawal, Ashvin and Floratou, Avrilia},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {12},
        pages = {2050--2053},
        doi = {10.14778/3229863.3236257},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3229863.3236257},
        year = {2018}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,309	Spur: Mitigating Slow Instances in Large-Scale Streaming Pipelines	2020	SIGMOD	5.4560857e-05
10,551	APEROL: Adaptive Parallel Edge-to-cloud Runtime Optimization for Layered Workflow Execution	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
220	Storm @Twitter	2014	SIGMOD	0.00024244587
612	Twitter Heron: Stream Processing at Scale	2015	SIGMOD	0.0001573018
1,224	Dhalion: Self-Regulating Stream Processing in Heron	2017	VLDB	0.00011596911

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