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Microservices: Granularity vs. Performance
Microservice Architectures (MA) have the potential to increase the agility of
software development. In an era where businesses require software applications
to evolve to support software emerging requirements, particularly for Internet
of Things (IoT) applications, we examine the issue of microservice granularity
and explore its effect upon application latency. Two approaches to microservice
deployment are simulated; the first with microservices in a single container,
and the second with microservices partitioned across separate containers. We
observed a neglibible increase in service latency for the multiple container
deployment over a single container.Comment: 6 pages, conferenc
Collaborative technologies for mobile workers and virtual project teams
Information Technology is advancing at a frightening pace. Cloud computing and its subset,
Software as a Service (SaaS), are rapidly challenging traditional thinking for enterprise-level
application and infrastructure provision.
The project-centric nature of the construction industry provides an environment where the
utilisation of SaaS is commercially appropriate, given its ability to provide rapid set-up and
predictable costs at the outset. Using project extranets, the construction industry has been -
unusually for it as an industry sector - early-adopters of this cloud computing model.
However, findings from the research highlight that there is a gap in the information and
documents that pass from the construction phase into the operational phase of a building.
This research considers examples of the SaaS IT model and how it has been used within a
construction and facilities management industry context. A prototype system was developed
to address the requirements of facilities management work order logging and tracking process.
These requirements were gathered during detailed case studies of organisations within both
the construction and facilities management sectors with a view to continue the use of
building-specific information through its full life-cycle.
The thesis includes a summary of the lessons learnt through system implementation within the
construction-contracting organisation Taylor Woodrow, and it concludes with an IT strategy
proposal that was developed based on a cloud computing model
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