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Sifan Liu

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arXiv2018

Overload Control for Scaling WeChat Microservices

Effective overload control for large-scale online service system is crucial for protecting the system backend from overload. Conventionally, the design of overload control is ad-hoc for individual service. However, service-specific overload control could be detrimental to the overall system due to intricate service dependencies or flawed implementation of service. Service developers usually have difficulty to accurately estimate the dynamics of actual workload during the development of service. Therefore, it is essential to decouple the overload control from service logic. In this paper, we propose DAGOR, an overload control scheme designed for the account-oriented microservice architecture. DAGOR is service agnostic and system-centric. It manages overload at the microservice granule such that each microservice monitors its load status in real time and triggers load shedding in a collaborative manner among its relevant services when overload is detected. DAGOR has been used in the WeChat backend for five years. Experimental results show that DAGOR can benefit high success rate of service even when the system is experiencing overload, while ensuring fairness in the overload control.

cs.DC↗

arXiv2018

Error Detection in a Large-Scale Lexical Taxonomy

Knowledge base (KB) is an important aspect in artificial intelligence. One significant challenge faced by KB construction is that it contains many noises, which prevents its effective usage. Even though some KB cleansing algorithms have been proposed, they focus on the structure of the knowledge graph and neglect the relation between the concepts, which could be helpful to discover wrong relations in KB. Motived by this, we measure the relation of two concepts by the distance between their corresponding instances and detect errors within the intersection of the conflicting concept sets. For efficient and effective knowledge base cleansing, we first apply a distance-based Model to determine the conflicting concept sets using two different methods. Then, we propose and analyze several algorithms on how to detect and repairing the errors based on our model, where we use hash method for an efficient way to calculate distance. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approaches could cleanse the knowledge bases efficiently and effectively.

cs.AI↗