Currently, the data to be explored and exploited by computing systems increases at an
exponential rate. The massive amount of data or so-called “Big Data” put pressure on …

State-of-the-art applications are typically deployed on top of cloud services which offer the
illusion of infinite resources, elastic scalability, and a simple pay-per-use billing model …

The advent of cloud computing has disruptively changed the way modern application
systems are developed and delivered. The cloud offers affordable access to infrastructure …

Edge computing is the next Internet frontier that will leverage computing resources located
near users, sensors, and data stores to provide more responsive services. Therefore, it is …

Function-as-a-Service is a popular cloud programming model that supports developers by
abstracting away most operational concerns with automatic deployment and scaling of …

Web APIs are increasingly becoming an integral part of web or mobile applications. As a
consequence, performance characteristics and availability of the APIs used directly impact …

While database schema options in relational database management systems are few and
have been studied for decades, little effort has so far been devoted to NoSQL column stores …

Modern applications increasingly interact with web APIs–reusable components, deployed
and operated outside the application, and accessed over the network. Their existence …

Performance problems in applications should ideally be detected as soon as they occur, ie,
directly when the causing code modification is added to the code repository. To this end …

The computing landscape has significantly changed over the last three decades–loosely
coupled and geographically dispersed systems started replacing tightly coupled monolithic …