Using Microservices to Customize Multi-Tenant SaaS: From Intrusive to Non-Intrusive

Customization is a widely adopted practice on enterprise software applications such as Enterprise resource planning (ERP) or Customer relation management (CRM). Software vendors deploy their enterprise software product on the premises of a customer, which is then often customized for different specific needs of the customer. When enterprise applications are moving to the cloud as mutli-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), the traditional way of on-premises customization faces new challenges because a customer no longer has an exclusive control to the application. To empower businesses with specific requirements on top of the shared standard SaaS, vendors need a novel approach to support the customization on the multi-tenant SaaS. In this paper, we summarize our two approaches for customizing multi-tenant SaaS using microservices: intrusive and non-intrusive. The paper clarifies the key concepts related to the problem of multi-tenant customization, and describes a design with a reference architecture and high-level principles. We also discuss the key technical challenges and the feasible solutions to implement this architecture. Our microservice-based customization solution is promising to meet the general customization requirements, and achieves a balance between isolation, assimilation and economy of scale

Les raisons de la peur : Les classes moyennes sont-elles protégées de la crise ?

L’idée qu’en France les classes moyennes bénéficieraient d’une protection particulière vis-à-vis de la crise est très répandue : selon ce point de vue, les priorités sociales d’aujourd’hui seraient avant tout de l’ordre de politiques ciblées sur les plus fragiles, plus que d’une approche systémique ayant pour objet la solution des difficultés du salariat et du travail. Cette note de l'OFCE propose un tout autre diagnostic et met en évidence, à l’inverse, la remontée par capillarité des difficultés sociales des classes populaires (employés et ouvriers, qui constituent respectivement les fractions tertiaires et industrielles du salariat d’exécution) vers le noyau central de la société française (...)

The Long-Term Destabilization of Youth, Scarring Effects and the Future of the Welfare Regime in Post-Trente Glorieuse France

"Youth" was once defined as the 15 to 24 year old age group. Today in France one sees a "first youth" (dependent on family and school) and a "second youth" in their twenties sharply divided between a successful elite with top degrees (or family wealth) and a highly marginalized workingclass. Between these extremes, a middle group often experiences frustration and anomie when their university degrees fail to launch the careers they desired. A "third youth" of thirty-somethings has also emerged still dependent on their families and the state. The French corporatist welfare regime, moreover, makes women, immigrants, and the young structural outsiders who must compete harder than Caucasian middle-aged men for jobs. Setbacks early in life in the labor market have long-term consequences (scarring effects) both for individuals and for the birth cohort as a whole. The political consequences are difficult to forecast, but much of the recent political volatility in France can be traced to these generational dynamics and failure to integrate youth since the late 1970s

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‘Reeling in’ fish fraud : identifying the stage where seafood mislabelling occurs in Canada’s supply chain and solving it : European success adapted to Canada

In Canada, there exists an epidemic of seafood fraud ad counteracting this requires an understanding of which actors are creating this issue. To do this, I created a model and used variables, including likelihood to be caught, the costs of being caught both in terms of reputational costs and fines levied by the government, to determine which stage of the supply chain has the greatest incentive. I found that various stages had some incentive however, the value-add and processing stage had the greatest benefit and lowest likelihood of being caught. I then put forward some policy suggestions, based off Europe’s success in addressing fraud, and adapted them to the Canadian situation. The literature and information in this area has proven there are ways of combatting seafood fraud in Canada and this paper hopes to over a meaningful way of addressing the perpetrators of it and an efficient solution to discouraging it.nhhma