4 papers
vMODB: Unifying Event and Data Management for Distributed Asynchronous Applications
Rodrigo Laigner, Yongluan Zhou
Event-driven microservice architecture (EDMA) has emerged as a crucial architectural pattern for scalable cloud applications. In typical EDMAs, database systems are relegated to is…
Transactional Cloud Applications: Status Quo, Challenges, and Opportunities
Rodrigo Laigner, George Christodoulou, Kyriakos Psarakis +2
Transactional cloud applications such as payment, booking, reservation systems, and complex business workflows are currently being rewritten for deployment in the cloud. This migra…
Online Marketplace: A Benchmark for Data Management in Microservices
Rodrigo Laigner, Zhexiang Zhang, Yijian Liu +2
Microservice architectures have become a popular approach for designing scalable distributed applications. Despite their extensive use in industrial settings for over a decade, the…
Rethinking State Management in Actor Systems for Cloud-Native Applications
Yijian Liu, Rodrigo Laigner, Yongluan Zhou
The actor model has gained increasing popularity. However, it lacks support for complex state management tasks, such as enforcing foreign key constraints and ensuring data replicat…