  The evolution of cloud applications into loosely-coupled microservices opens
new opportunities for hardware accelerators to improve workload performance.
Existing accelerator techniques for cloud sacrifice the consolidation benefits
of microservices. This paper presents CloudiFi, a framework to deploy and
compare accelerators as a cloud service. We evaluate our framework in the
context of a financial workload and present early results indicating up to 485x
gains in microservice response time.
