Cloud computing with its three key facets (ie, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-
Service, and Software-as-a-Service) and its inherent advantages (eg, elasticity and …

Resource scheduling becomes the prominent issue in cloud computing due to rapid growth
of on demand request and heterogeneous nature of cloud resources. Cloud provides …

Big Data has emerged in the past few years as a new paradigm providing abundant data
and opportunities to improve and/or enable research and decision-support applications with …

Cloud applications are increasingly shifting from large monolithic services, to large numbers
of loosely-coupled, specialized microservices. Despite their advantages in terms of …

Serverless computing is becoming increasingly popular, enabling users to quickly launch
thousands of shortlived tasks in the cloud with high elasticity and fine-grain billing. These …

Performance unpredictability is a major roadblock towards cloud adoption, and has
performance, cost, and revenue ramifications. Predictable performance is even more critical …

Elasticity is a fundamental property in cloud computing that has recently witnessed major
developments. This article reviews both classical and recent elasticity solutions and …

Cloud applications are increasingly shifting from large monolithic services to complex
graphs of loosely-coupled microservices. Despite the advantages of modularity and …

Recent demands for storing and querying big data have revealed various shortcomings of
traditional relational database systems. This, in turn, has led to the emergence of a new kind …

Cloud computing environments allow customers to dynamically scale their applications. The
key problem is how to lease the right amount of resources, on a pay-as-you-go basis …