The field of cloud computing is moving towards optimizing performance in large-scale clusters and data-center networks. Researchers are focusing on devising effective dispatching policies, load balancing strategies, and routing algorithms to minimize congestion and reduce response times. Innovative approaches, such as two-stage architectures and hierarchical forecast reconciliation, are being explored to improve the efficiency of cloud systems. Noteworthy papers include:

• Two-Stagification, which introduces a two-stage cluster architecture to improve mean response times.
• Hierarchical Forecast Reconciliation on Networks, which reformulates hierarchical forecast reconciliation as a network flow optimization to enable forecasting on generalized network structures.