Paper Info
Title
A Framework for Satisfying the Performance Requirements of Containerized Software Systems Through Multi-Versioning
Abstract
With the increasing popularity and complexity of containerized software systems, satisfying the performance requirements of these systems becomes more challenging as well. While a common remedy to this problem is to increase the allocated amount of resources by scaling up or out, this remedy is not necessarily cost-effective and, therefore, often problematic for smaller companies. In this paper, we study an alternative, more cost-effective approach for satisfying the performance requirements of containerized software systems. In particular, we investigate how we can satisfy such requirements by applying software multi-versioning to the system's resource-heavy containers. We present DockerMV, an open-source extension of the Docker framework, to support the multi-versioning of containerized software systems. We demonstrate the efficacy of multi-versioning for satisfying the performance requirements of containerized software systems through experiments on the TeaStore, a microservice reference test application, and Znn, a containerized news portal application. Our DockerMV extension can be used by software developers to introduce multi-versioning in their own containerized software systems, thereby better allowing them to meet the performance requirements of their systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3358960.3379125
ICPE '20: ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Edmonton AB Canada April, 2020
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Software Multi-versioning, Containerized Software Systems, Performance Requirements
Conference
978-1-4503-6991-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sara Gholami100.68
Alireza Goli211.02
Cor-Paul Bezemer328323.97
Hamzeh Khazaei422317.82