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Performance in heterogeneous service-based systems shows non-determistic trends. Even for the same request type, latency may vary from one request to another. These variations can occur due to several reasons on different levels of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Vittorio Cortellessa , Luca Traini

Testing microservice systems involves a large amount of planning and problem-solving. The difficulty of testing microservice systems increases as the size and structure of such systems become more complex. To help the microservice community…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Sheldon Smith , Ethan Robinson , Timmy Frederiksen , Trae Stevens , Tomas Cerny , Miroslav Bures , Davide Taibi

As more and more multi-tier services are developed from commercial components or heterogeneous middleware without the source code available, both developers and administrators need a precise request tracing tool to help understand and debug…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhihong Zhang , Jianfeng Zhan , Yong Li , Lei Wang , Dan Meng , Bo Sang

Microservices is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services, making it easy for developers to build and scale their applications. The microservices architecture approach differs from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Muhammad Ahsan , Sacheendra Talluri , Alexandru Iosup

Future mobile networks supporting Internet of Things are expected to provide both high throughput and low latency to user-specific services. One way to overcome this challenge is to adopt Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Qi Liao , Nikolaos Pappas

Analyzing large-scale performance logs from GPU profilers often requires terabytes of memory and hours of runtime, even for basic summaries. These constraints prevent timely insight and hinder the integration of performance analytics into…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ankur Lahiry , Ayush Pokharel , Seth Ockerman , Amal Gueroudji , Line Pouchard , Tanzima Z. Islam

Performance analysis is a critical step in the oft-repeated, iterative process of performance tuning of parallel programs. Per-process, per-thread traces (detailed logs of events with timestamps) enable in-depth analysis of parallel program…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Abhinav Bhatele , Rakrish Dhakal , Alexander Movsesyan , Aditya K. Ranjan , Onur Cankur

Microservice-based systems are often complex to understand, especially when their sizes grow. Abstracted views help practitioners with the system understanding from a certain perspective. Recent advancement in interactive data visualization…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Amr S. Abdelfattah , Tomas Cerny , Davide Taibi , Sira Vegas

Microservice systems expose rich telemetry streams, including metrics, logs, and distributed traces. Existing performance anomaly detection methods increasingly model these systems as graphs, where nodes represent services and edges…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yunjian Ma

Adequate consideration is crucial to ensure that services in a distributed application context are running satisfactorily with the resources available. Due to the asynchronous nature of tasks and the need to work with multiple layers that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Herve Mbikayi Kabamba , Matthew Khouzam , Michel Dagenais

Microservice and serverless computing systems open up massive versatility and opportunity to distributed and datacenter-scale computing. In the meantime, the deployments of modern datacenter resources are moving to disaggregated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Xiaoyi Lu , Arjun Kashyap

Optimizing application performance in today's hardware architecture landscape is an important, but increasingly complex task, often requiring detailed performance analyses. In particular, data movement and reuse play a crucial role in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Philipp Schaad , Tal Ben-Nun , Torsten Hoefler

With the rise of the open data movement a lot of statistical data has been made publicly available by governments, statistical offices and other organizations. First efforts to visualize are made by the data providers themselves. Data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2011-10-17 Daniel Hienert , Benjamin Zapilko , Philipp Schaer , Brigitte Mathiak

Distributed tracing has become an essential technique for debugging and troubleshooting modern microservice-based applications, enabling software engineers to detect performance bottlenecks, identify failures, and gain insights into system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Linh-An Phan , MingXue Wang , Guangyu Wu , Wang Dawei , Chen Liqun , Li Jin

Microservices are quite widely impacting on the software industry in recent years. Rapid evolution and continuous deployment represent specific benefits of microservice-based systems, but they may have a significant impact on non-functional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Vittorio Cortellessa , Daniele Di Pompeo , Romina Eramo , Michele Tucci

We present ParcoursVis, an open-source Progressive Visual Analytics tool designed to explore aggregated electronic health record sequences of patients at scale. Existing tools are limited to about 20k patients that they can process fast…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ambre Assor , Mickael Sereno , Jean-Daniel Fekete

Real-time embedded systems require precise timing and fault detection to ensure correct behavior. Traditional tracing tools often rely on local desktops with limited processing and storage capabilities, which hampers large-scale analysis.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 David Jannis Schmidt , Grigory Fridman , Florian von Zabiensky

Microservice applications are created as loosely coupled application components and they leverage cloud elasticity to reduce costs and increase development speed. However, microservice applications exhibit complex interactions among…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Minxian Xu , Junhan Liao , Linfeng Wen , Huaming Wu , Kejiang Ye , Rajkumar Buyya , Chengzhong Xu

Dimension reduction and data visualization aim to project a high-dimensional dataset to a low-dimensional space while capturing the intrinsic structures in the data. It is an indispensable part of modern data science, and many dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-26 Rong Ma , Eric D. Sun , James Zou

The complex dependencies and propagative faults inherent in microservices, characterized by a dense network of interconnected services, pose significant challenges in identifying the underlying causes of issues. Prompt identification and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Tingting Wang , Guilin Qi