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Towards a Blockchain-Based CI/CD Framework to Enhance Security in Cloud Environments
Sabbir M Saleh, Nazim Madhavji, John Steinbacher
Security is becoming a pivotal point in cloud platforms. Several divisions, such as business organisations, health care, government, etc., have experienced cyber-attacks on their i…
Understanding Everything as Code: A Taxonomy and Conceptual Model
Haoran Wei, Nazim Madhavji, John Steinbacher
Background: Everything as Code (EaC) is an emerging paradigm aiming to codify all aspects of modern software systems. Despite its growing popularity, comprehensive industry standar…
Enhancing Cloud Security through Topic Modelling
Sabbir M. Saleh, Nazim Madhavji, John Steinbacher
Protecting cloud applications is critical in an era where security threats are increasingly sophisticated and persistent. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) p…
A Systematic Literature Review on Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) for Secure Cloud Computing
Sabbir M. Saleh, Nazim Madhavji, John Steinbacher
As cloud environments become widespread, cybersecurity has emerged as a top priority across areas such as networks, communication, data privacy, response times, and availability. V…
Advancing Software Security and Reliability in Cloud Platforms through AI-based Anomaly Detection
Sabbir M. Saleh, Ibrahim Mohammed Sayem, Nazim Madhavji +1
Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) is fundamental for advanced software development, supporting faster and more efficient delivery of code changes into cloud envi…
Anomaly Detection in Large-Scale Cloud Systems: An Industry Case and Dataset
Mohammad Saiful Islam, Mohamed Sami Rakha, William Pourmajidi +3
As Large-Scale Cloud Systems (LCS) become increasingly complex, effective anomaly detection is critical for ensuring system reliability and performance. However, there is a shortag…
CloudHeatMap: Heatmap-Based Monitoring for Large-Scale Cloud Systems
Sarah Sohana, William Pourmajidi, John Steinbacher +1
Cloud computing is essential for modern enterprises, requiring robust tools to monitor and manage Large-Scale Cloud Systems (LCS). Traditional monitoring tools often miss critical…
Attention is Not Always What You Need: Towards Efficient Classification of Domain-Specific Text
Yasmen Wahba, Nazim Madhavji, John Steinbacher
For large-scale IT corpora with hundreds of classes organized in a hierarchy, the task of accurate classification of classes at the higher level in the hierarchies is crucial to av…
A Reference Architecture for Governance of Cloud Native Applications
William Pourmajidi, Lei Zhang, John Steinbacher +2
The evolution of cloud computing has given rise to Cloud Native Applications (CNAs), presenting new challenges in governance, particularly when faced with strict compliance require…
A Comparison of SVM against Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) for Text Classification Tasks
Yasmen Wahba, Nazim Madhavji, John Steinbacher
The emergence of pre-trained language models (PLMs) has shown great success in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks including text classification. Due to the minimal to no…
Anomaly Detection in a Large-scale Cloud Platform
Mohammad Saiful Islam, William Pourmajidi, Lei Zhang +3
Cloud computing is ubiquitous: more and more companies are moving the workloads into the Cloud. However, this rise in popularity challenges Cloud service providers, as they need to…
Immutable Log Storage as a Service on Private and Public Blockchains
William Pourmajidi, Lei Zhang, John Steinbacher +2
Service Level Agreements (SLA) are employed to ensure the performance of Cloud solutions. When a component fails, the importance of logs increases significantly. All departments ma…
Immutable Log Storage as a Service
William Pourmajidi, Lei Zhang, John Steinbacher +2
Logs contain critical information about the quality of the rendered services on the Cloud and can be used as digital evidence. Hence, we argue that the critical nature of logs call…
Dogfooding: use IBM Cloud services to monitor IBM Cloud infrastructure
William Pourmajidi, Andriy Miranskyy, John Steinbacher +2
The stability and performance of Cloud platforms are essential as they directly impact customers' satisfaction. Cloud service providers use Cloud monitoring tools to ensure that re…
On Challenges of Cloud Monitoring
William Pourmajidi, John Steinbacher, Tony Erwin +1
Cloud services are becoming increasingly popular: 60\% of information technology spending in 2016 was Cloud-based, and the size of the public Cloud service market will reach $236B…