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Performance Engineering for Microservices and Serverless Applications: The RADON Approach

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André van Hoorn,

Giuliano Casale,

Thomas F. Düllmann,

Michael WursterAuthors Info & Claims

ICPE '20: Companion of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

Pages 46 - 49

https://doi.org/10.1145/3375555.3383120

Published: 20 April 2020 Publication History

Abstract

Microservices and serverless functions are becoming integral parts of modern cloud-based applications. Tailored performance engineering is needed for assuring that the applications meet their requirements for quality attributes such as timeliness, resource efficiency, and elasticity. A novel DevOps-based framework for developing microservices and serverless applications is being developed in the RADON project. RADON contributes to performance engineering by including novel approaches for modeling, deployment optimization, testing, and runtime management. This paper summarizes the contents of our tutorial presented at the 11th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE).

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ICPE '20: Companion of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

April 2020

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ISBN:9781450371094

DOI:10.1145/3375555

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University of Alberta, Canada
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Düllmann Tvan Hoorn AYussupov VJakovits PAdhikari MFeng DBecker SHerbst NLeitner P(2022)CTTCompanion of the 2022 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering10.1145/3491204.3527484(89-96)Online publication date: 14-Jul-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491204.3527484
Khan HAli FNazir S(2022)Systematic analysis of software development in cloud computing perceptionsJournal of Software: Evolution and Process10.1002/smr.2485Online publication date: 29-Jun-2022
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