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Programming Paradigms for the Cloud Continuum

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Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2023)

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Abstract

The Cloud continuum is a notion for the distributed infrastructure able to run third party software on heterogeneous hardware ranging from the high performance core Cloud data centres, through smaller fog data centres, down to resource constrained Edge servers. Beyond that, one will often have Internet of Things (IoT) devices on a wired or wireless infrastructure for data collection and actuation. The application components should be allocated along this continuum in order to optimize the application performance which is a combined measure of communication speed and computational power. However, most applications are not written with distribution in mind, and may not even be component based. This paper discusses various programming paradigms and how they can be extended to support distribution and embedding into the microservice architecture supporting tomorrow’s Cloud applications.

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    https://spark.apache.org/.

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    https://hadoop.apache.org/.

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    https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2022.

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    https://www.mpi-forum.org/.

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    https://www.open-mpi.org/.

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    https://www.ietf.org/.

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    https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/taps/about/.

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    https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tosca.

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    https://kubernetes.io/.

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    https://juju.is/.

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    https://melodic.cloud/.

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    https://www.ansible.com/.

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This work has received funding from the European Union’s research and innovation programmes Horizon 2020 under grant agreement No 871643 MORPHEMIC (http://morphemic.cloud): Modelling and Orchestrating heterogeneous Resources and Polymorphic applications for Holistic Execution and adaptation of Models In the Cloud and Horizon Europe grant agreement No 101070516 NebulOuS (https://www.nebulouscloud.eu/): A Meta Operating System For Brokering Hyper-Distributed Applications On Cloud Computing Continuums.

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Horn, G., Di Martino, B., D’Angelo, S., Esposito, A. (2023). Programming Paradigms for the Cloud Continuum. In: Barolli, L. (eds) Advanced Information Networking and Applications. AINA 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 655. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28694-0_14

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