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 …

Loosely-coupled and light-weight microservices running in containers are replacing
monolithic applications gradually. Understanding the characteristics of microservices is …

The growing popularity of microservices has led to the proliferation of online cloud service-
based applications, which are typically modelled as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) …

Microservice architectures have become the lifeblood of modern service-oriented software
systems. Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) among microservices are deeply nested …

To mitigate climate change, we must reduce carbon emissions from hyperscale cloud
computing. We find that cloud compute servers cause the majority of emissions in a general …

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

Workload autoscaling is widely used in public and private cloud systems to maintain stable
service performance and save resources. However, it remains challenging to set the optimal …

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

The microservice architecture is a novel paradigm for building and operating distributed
applications in many organizations. This paradigm changes many aspects of how distributed …