Flexible Paxos (Sep 27, 2016) and Replex (Oct 27, 2016) (see more ..)
Flexible Paxos: Quorum intersection revisited. https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06696
"Replex: A Scalable, Highly Available Multi-Index Store"; https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc16/technical-sessions/presentation/tai
"Transactional Data Structure Libraries" by VRG intern Sasha Spiegelman wins the http://conf.researchr.org/home/pldi-2016 Distinguished Paper award.
ExitLess Interrupts: Novel technique for bare-metal performance for VMs.
Nadav Amit's PhD thesis "Alleviating Virtualization Bottlenecks" wins an honorable mention of the 2015 ACM SIGOPS thesis award committee
Professor Isaac Keslassy, who is spending a sabbatical year with VRG, is the winner of the 2015 SIGCOMM 'test of time' paper award for his paper: