The First Complete Guide to DevOps for Software Architects DevOps promises to accelerate
the release of new software features and improve monitoring of systems in production, but its …

The pervasiveness of IoT and embedded devices allows the deployment of services that
were unthinkable only few years ago. Such devices are typically small, run unattended …

Upgrade is one of the most disruptive yet unavoidable maintenance tasks that undermine
the availability of distributed systems. Any failure during an upgrade is catastrophic, as it …

The fast evolution pace for cloud computing software is on a collision course with our
growing reliance on cloud computing. On one hand, cloud software must have the agility to …

Cloud computing systems provide the facilities to make application services resilient against
failures of individual computing resources. However, resiliency is typically limited by a cloud …

Increasingly many systems have to run all the time with no downtime allowed. Consider, for
example, systems controlling electric power plants and e-banking servers. Nevertheless …

Numerous security attacks that resulted in devastating consequences can be traced back to
a delay in applying a security patch. Despite the criticality of timely patch application, not …

Application-level multi-tenancy is an architectural approach for Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) applications which enables high operational cost efficiency by sharing one …

In large-scale online service systems, the occurrence of software changes is inevitable and
frequent. Despite rigorous pre-deployment testing practices, the presence of defective …

Dynamic Software Updating (DSU) is a technique for patching stateful software without
shutting it down, which enables both timely updates and non-stop service. Unfortunately …