{"title":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/icsa.2019.00002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/icsa.2019.00002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426352,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114641469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
He Zhang, Shanshan Li, Zijia Jia, Chenxing Zhong, Cheng Zhang
{"title":"Microservice Architecture in Reality: An Industrial Inquiry","authors":"He Zhang, Shanshan Li, Zijia Jia, Chenxing Zhong, Cheng Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ICSA.2019.00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSA.2019.00014","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Seeking an appropriate architecture for a software design is always a challenge in recent decades. Although microservices as a lightweight architecture style is claimed that can improve the current practices with several characteristics, many practices are based upon the different circumstances and reflect the variant effects. An empirical inquiry brings us a systematic insight into the industrial practices on microservices. Objective: This study is to investigate the gap between the ideal visions and real industrial practices on microservices and what benefits we can gain from the industrial experiences. Method: We carried out a series of industrial interviews with thirteen different types of companies. The collected data were then codified according to the defined qualitative methods. Results: We characterized the gaps between the typical characteristics accepted in the community and the industrial practices of microservices. Furthermore, the compromise between benefits and sufferings of microservices around these nine dimensions were also investigated. Conclusion: We confirmed the benefits of the microservices that can be obtained from practice as well as their possible pains that need to be addressed with extra expense from experiences. Besides, some outlined pains, e.g., organizational transformation, decomposition, distributed monitoring, and bug localization, may inspire researchers to conduct the further research.","PeriodicalId":426352,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114604671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Weber, Q. Lu, An Binh Tran, Amit Deshmukh, Marek Górski, Markus Strazds
{"title":"A Platform Architecture for Multi-Tenant Blockchain-Based Systems","authors":"I. Weber, Q. Lu, An Binh Tran, Amit Deshmukh, Marek Górski, Markus Strazds","doi":"10.1109/ICSA.2019.00019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSA.2019.00019","url":null,"abstract":"Blockchain has attracted a broad range of interests from start-ups, enterprises and governments to build next generation applications in a decentralized manner. Similar to cloud platforms, a single blockchain-based system may need to serve multiple tenants simultaneously. However, design of multi-tenant blockchain-based systems is challenging to architects in terms of data and performance isolation, as well as scalability. First, tenants must not be able to read other tenants' data and tenants with potentially higher workload should not affect read/write performance of other tenants. Second, multi-tenant blockchain-based systems usually require both scalability for each individual tenant and scalability with number of tenants. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a scalable platform architecture for multi-tenant blockchain-based systems to ensure data integrity while maintaining data privacy and performance isolation. In the proposed architecture, each tenant has an individual permissioned blockchain to maintain their own data and smart contracts. All tenant chains are anchored into a main chain, in a way that minimizes cost and load overheads. The proposed architecture has been implemented in a proof-of-concept prototype with our industry partner, Laava ID Pty Ltd (Laava). We evaluate our proposal in a three-fold way: fulfilment of the identified requirements, qualitative comparison with design alternatives, and quantitative analysis. The evaluation results show that the proposed architecture can achieve data integrity, performance isolation, data privacy, configuration flexibility, availability, cost efficiency and scalability.","PeriodicalId":426352,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA)","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116669058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}