Elasticity is a fundamental property in cloud computing that has recently witnessed major
developments. This article reviews both classical and recent elasticity solutions and …

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 …

Fog computing provides a decentralized approach to data processing and resource
provisioning in the Internet of Things (IoT). Particular challenges of adopting fog-based …

Microservices are widely used for flexible software development. Recently, containers have
become the preferred deployment technology for microservices because of fast start-up and …

Elasticity is the key feature of cloud computing to scale computing resources according to
application workloads timely. In the literature as well as in industrial products, much attention …

Cloud platforms typically require users to provide resource requirements for applications so
that resource managers can schedule containers with adequate allocations. However, the …

Fog computing is one of the promising technologies for realizing global‐scale Internet of
Things (IoT) applications as it allows moving compute and storage resources closer to IoT …

An approach to optimize the deployment of microservices-based applications using
containers in multi-cloud architectures is presented. The optimization objectives are three …

Container-based cloud applications require sophisticated auto-scaling methods in order to
operate under different workload conditions. The choice of an auto-scaling method may …

The growing adoption of microservice architectures (MSAs) has led to major research and
development efforts to address their challenges and improve their performance, reliability …