Wearable sensing technologies are having a worldwide impact on the creation of novel
business opportunities and application services that are benefiting the common citizen. By …

Context. Since its proclamation in 2012, microservices-based architecture has gained
widespread popularity due to its advantages, such as improved availability, fault tolerance …

Currently, organizations face the need to create scalable applications in an agile way that
impacts new forms of production and business organization. The traditional monolithic …

Context: Microservices running and being powered by Edge Computing have been gaining
much attention in the industry and academia. Since 2014, when Martin Fowler popularized …

Bench is an open-source tool for benchmarking cloud/edge computing platforms that run
microservice applications. The tool creates dummy microservice applications that can be …

With the development of the Internet of Things technology in the smart grids, terminal
devices such as advanced sensors and smart meters present a trend of massive access in …

Cybersecurity has been a concern for quite a while now. In the latest years, cyberattacks
have been increasing in size and complexity, fueled by significant advances in technology …

The agility inherent to today's business promotes the definition of software architectures
where the business entities are decoupled into modules and/or services. However, there are …

Background: Cloud-native software systems often have a much more decentralized structure
and many independently deployable and (horizontally) scalable components, making it …

Reading and analyzing data from sensors are crucial in many areas of life. IoT concepts and
related issues are becoming more and more popular, but before we can process data and …