In order to meet stringent performance requirements, system administrators must effectively
detect undesirable performance behaviours, identify potential root causes, and take …

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

Fault localization, a core element in network fault management, is the process of inferring
the exact failure in a network from the set of observed symptoms. Since faults in network …

Driven by the emerging business models (eg, digital sales) and IT technologies (eg, DevOps
and Cloud computing), the architecture of software is shifting from monolithic to microservice …

Modern society is increasingly moving toward complex and distributed computing systems.
The increase in scale and complexity of these systems challenges O&M teams that perform …

Performance regressions, such as a higher CPU utilization than in the previous version of an
application, are caused by software application updates that negatively affect the …

Embedded devices are becoming more widespread, interconnected, and web-enabled than
ever. However, recent studies showed that embedded devices are far from being secure …

Developers frequently use inefficient code sequences that could be fixed by simple patches.
These inefficient code sequences can cause significant performance degradation and …

Logging is a common programming practice of practical importance to collect system
runtime information for postmortem analysis. Strategic logging placement is desired to cover …

Diagnosis and correction of performance issues in modern, large-scale distributed systems
can be a daunting task, since a single developer is unlikely to be familiar with the entire …