Containerization is a lightweight application virtualization technology, providing high
environmental consistency, operating system distribution portability, and resource isolation …

The long-held dream of computing as a service was realized with the emergence of cloud
computing. Recently, fog and edge computing have been introduced as extensions of cloud …

User-facing latency-sensitive web services include numerous distributed,
intercommunicating microservices that promise to simplify software development and …

Kubernetes, the container orchestrator for cloud-deployed applications, offers automatic
scaling for the application provider in order to meet the ever-changing intensity of …

With the advantages of flexible scalability and fast delivery, microservice has become a
popular software architecture in the modern IT industry. However, the explosion in the …

Cloud applications are becoming more containerized in nature. Developing a cloud
application based on a microservice architecture imposes different challenges including …

When deploying microservices in production clusters, it is critical to automatically scale
containers to improve cluster utilization and ensure service level agreements (SLA) …

The emerging trend towards moving from monolithic applications to microservices has
raised new performance challenges in cloud computing environments. Compared with …

Microservice is an architectural style that has been widely adopted in various latency-
sensitive applications. Similar to the monolith, autoscaling has attracted the attention of …

Cloud service providers conservatively provision excessive resources to ensure service
level objectives (SLOs) are met. They often set lower CPU utilization targets to ensure …