Tutorials

Designing Scalable and Secure Microservices by Embracing DevOps-as-a-Service Offerings

Speakers: Demetris Trihinas, Athanasios Tryfonos, Marios D. Dikaiakos

Description

This tutorial examines the fact that simply re-engineering applications into microservices does not remove the operational complexity and risk of failure.  In the Cloud era, as applications grow by adding more services, security enforcement and dynamic resource allocation become significant challenges. At scale, these challenges can be addressed with autonomicity.  Through automation, microservices are equipped with the ability to continuously control the underlying infrastructure, thus turning into services that can be programmatically harnessed.  However, traditional monitoring is deemed ineffective for decomposed and highly dynamic microservices deployed over shared execution environments.  On the other hand, finer service granularity means more moving parts and hence an increased complexity of auto-scaling, more points of failure and more possibilities for severe privacy violations.

To  overcome these challenges and take full advantage of the rapidly evolving microservices landscape, we will introduce the Unicorn DevOps-as-a-Service  platform, which  provides software teams of all sizes with a powerful toolset to simplify and speed up the development and management of scalable and secure applications over multi-cloud environments.

Target Audience

• Academic researchers
• Software developers
• DevOps Engineers
• Anyone with a programming background and with some exposure to cloud environments, software version control, and Unix operating systems

Tutorial Program
Monday, 10 Dec

• Tutorial (Part A) | 14.00 – 15.30
• Tutorial (Part B) | 16.00 – 17.30

Tutorial Structure

Biography of Presenters:

Demetris Trihinas is currently a Faculty Member at the Department of Computer Science, University of Nicosia and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus. His research interests include Distributed and Internet Computing with particular focus in Big Data Analytics for Cloud and Edge Computing. He received his PhD degree from the University of Cyprus in 2017 with his dissertation targeting developing low- cost probabilistic and adaptive learning models for approximate monitoring in order to improve energy-efficiency and reduce the volume of data generated by IoT services offered through the cloud. He additionally holds a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus and a Dipl-Ing in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Dr. Trihinas is also the developer of the JCatascopia cloud monitoring system, the AdaM framework for IoT devices and also an active member of the Cloud Application Management Framework (CAMF) which is an ocial Eclipse Foundation project. His work is published in IEEE/ACM journals and conferences such as Trans. Services Computing (TSC), Trans. Cloud Computing (TCC), ICDCS, INFOCOM, BigData, CCGrid, and ICSOC.

Athanasios Tryfonos is a DevOps Engineer and Software Developer at the Laboratory of Internet Computing of the Department of Computer Science at University of Cyprus. His interests include Cloud Computing, Virtualization & Containerization Technologies, Microservices and modern DevOps Tools and Practices. He received his BSc from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus with his thesis focusing on artefact management for the Cloud Application Management Framework (CAMF) which is an official Eclipse Foundation project. He is currently member of the development teams of UNICORN H2020 Project and ENEDH Interreg project. Athanasios has previously worked as a web application developer and systems administrator as well.

Marios D. Dikaiakos is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus and director of the University’s Centre for Entrepreneurship. He served as Head of the Computer Science Department in 2010-2014. Dikaiakos received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University (1994), an M.A. in Computer Science from Princeton (1991), and a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (summa cumlaude, 1988). Dikaiakos research focuses on the design, development and evaluation of large-scale distributed computing systems and tools. Prof. Dikaiakos has over 20 years of experience as principal investigator, principal institutional investigator or participant in research projects funded by European and American agencies. His research work includes over 160 original publications in books, journals and international conference proceedings, the editing of books and conference proceedings, and the direction of research projects at the University of Cyprus with a total budget exceeding 4 million Euros for the period 2000-2018. He has also served as program chair, co-chair and program committee member in numerous international scientific conferences; independent evaluator of European academic and research institutions; reviewer and evaluator for research proposals submitted to the E.U. and to several national European science foundations; and independent observer of proposal evaluation exercises of the E.U. under Framework Program 7. He is a Senior Member of the ACM, was a member of ACMs Distinguished Speakers Program (2012-2015), a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the Technical Chamber of Greece. More details can be found under: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/mdd/.