SelfTune: Tuning Cluster Managers, by authors from Microsoft Research, regular Microsoft, and Stony Brook University, at NSDI (Networked Systems Design and Implementation) 2023. Here’s a presentation I gave to the distributed systems reading group, a written version is below. The only reason I review papers is because I like finding old images, here’s a guy tuning a piano. --- The Problem This paper is about cluster managers, software systems like Kubernetes or Docker Swarm, that manage a...