Microservice

  • Reading Group #152. Blueprint: A Toolchain for Highly-Reconfigurable Microservice Applications

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    The 152nd reading group meeting continued the microservices discussion started in the 151st paper. We read the “Blueprint: A Toolchain for Highly-Reconfigurable Microservice Applications” SOSP’23 paper by Vaastav Anand, Deepak Garg, Antoine Kaufmann, and Jonathan Mace. The premise of the Blueprint is the separation of the app’s logic and most of the infrastructure/ops concerns.  This…

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  • Reading Group 151. Towards Modern Development of Cloud ApplicationsReading Group 151.

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    We kicked off the winter term set of papers in the reading group with the “Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications” HotOS’23 paper. The paper proposes a different approach to designing distributed applications by replacing the microservice architecture style with something more fluid. The paper argues that splitting applications into microservices from the get-go can…

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  • Reading Group. Oakestra: A Lightweight Hierarchical Orchestration Framework for Edge Computing

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    Our 148th paper in DistSys Reading Group was “Oakestra: A Lightweight Hierarchical Orchestration Framework for Edge Computing” by Giovanni Bartolomeo, Mehdi Yosofie, Simon Bäurle, Oliver Haluszczynski, Nitinder Mohan, and Jörg Ott. We had a very detailed presentation in the reading group, so I will make a very short summary to compensate.  Oakestra, in a nutshell,…

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  • Reading Group. Method Overloading the Circuit

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    In the 126th reading group meeting, we continued talking about the reliability of large distributed systems. This time, we read the “Method Overloading the Circuit” SoCC’22 paper by Christopher Meiklejohn, Lydia Stark, Cesare Celozzi, Matt Ranney, and Heather Miller. This paper does an excellent job summarizing a concept of a circuit breaker in microservice applications.…

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