New Directions in Cloud Programming

Summary: Introduces PACT (Program semantics, Availability, Consistency, Targets of optimization) as a unifying abstraction to expose and manage distributed tradeoffs. Advocates lifting existing code to a declarative PACT layer and a multi-stage compiler that emits human-readable, hand-tunable code for gradual migration and research. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 414
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 6.2941668e-05
Overall Rank: 5,265 | 63.88%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Alvin Cheung (University of California Berkeley)
2. Natacha Crooks (University of California Berkeley)
3. Joseph M. Hellerstein (University of California Berkeley)
4. Mae Milano (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cheung_cidr21,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '21},
        title = {{New Directions in Cloud Programming}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Cheung, Alvin and Crooks, Natacha and Hellerstein, Joseph M. and Milano, Mae},
        year = {2021}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,755	Blueprinting the Cloud: Unifying and Automatically Optimizing Cloud Data Infrastructures with BRAD	2024	VLDB	5.5519655e-05
8,375	Serverless State Management Systems	2024	CIDR	5.4391978e-05
8,674	Boosting Efficiency of External Pipelines by Blurring Application Boundaries	2022	CIDR	5.3869233e-05
10,121	End-to-End Declarative Data Analytics: Co-designing Engines, Interfaces, and Cloud Infrastructure	2026	CIDR	5.093636e-05
10,126	Event Horizon: Asymmetric Dependencies for Fast Geo-Distributed Operations	2026	CIDR	5.093636e-05
10,633	Transactional Cloud Applications Go with the (Data)Flow	2025	CIDR	5.093636e-05
10,782	Styx: Transactional Stateful Functions on Streaming Dataflows	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,499	Towards Auto-Generated Data Systems	2023	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 22 of 22 cited papers.

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
53	Eddies: Continuously Adaptive Query Processing	2000	SIGMOD	0.00041071971
87	Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00035281619
867	Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems	2015	VLDB	0.00013511197
1,007	Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back	2019	CIDR	0.00012691341
1,240	Consistency Analysis in Bloom: a CALM and Collected Approach	2011	CIDR	0.00011536847
1,457	Building on Quicksand	2009	CIDR	0.00010726983
1,482	Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service	2020	VLDB	0.00010642079
1,623	Relational Transducers for Declarative Networking	2011	PODS	0.0001020106
2,154	Leveraging Lock Contention to Improve OLTP Application Performance	2016	VLDB	9.0745745e-05
2,439	The Homeostasis Protocol: Avoiding Transaction Coordination Through Program Analysis	2015	SIGMOD	8.5785386e-05
2,540	Multi-Objective Parametric Query Optimization	2015	VLDB	8.45187e-05
2,930	StatusQuo: Making Familiar Abstractions Perform Using Program Analysis	2013	CIDR	7.9494635e-05
2,941	Automatic Partitioning of Database Applications	2012	VLDB	7.937125e-05
3,097	Evita Raced: Metacompilation for Declarative Networks	2008	VLDB	7.7619658e-05
4,016	TARDiS: A Branch-and-Merge Approach To Weak Consistency	2016	SIGMOD	6.9530596e-05
4,311	Transactional Causal Consistency for Serverless Computing	2020	SIGMOD	6.7676144e-05
4,599	Automatically Leveraging MapReduce Frameworks for Data-Intensive Applications	2018	SIGMOD	6.6122875e-05
5,232	A.M.B.R.O.S.I.A: Providing Performant Virtual Resiliency for Distributed Applications	2020	VLDB	6.3067852e-05
7,298	Interactive Checks for Coordination Avoidance	2019	VLDB	5.6520377e-05
9,966	Generating Application-Specific Data Layouts for In-memory Databases	2019	VLDB	5.1870939e-05
11,689	A Client-centric Approach to Transactional Datastores	2021	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,783	Demonstration of Chestnut: An In-memory Data Layout Designer for Database Applications	2020	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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