6 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…
An Empirical Study on Challenges of Event Management in Microservice Architectures
Rodrigo Laigner, Ana Carolina Almeida, Wesley K. G. Assunção +1
Microservices emerged as a popular architectural style over the last decade. Although microservices are designed to be self-contained, they must communicate to realize business cap…
Benchmarking Data Management Systems for Microservices
Rodrigo Laigner, Yongluan Zhou
Microservice architectures are a popular choice for deploying large-scale data-intensive applications. This architectural style allows microservice practitioners to achieve require…