In 1986 Jim Gray published his landmark study of the causes of failures of Tandem systems and the techniques Tandem used to prevent such failures [6]. Seventeen years later, Inter...
David L. Oppenheimer, Archana Ganapathi, David A. ...
In nowadays wireless networks, mobile users frequently access Internet services that are often based on information concerning the application context and service status. In prese...
—Service-Oriented Computing has recently received a lot of attention from both academia and industry. However, current service-oriented solutions are often not as dynamic and ada...
Anton Michlmayr, Florian Rosenberg, Philipp Leitne...
The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio ca...