@conference {bonetta2012EuroPar, title = {Node.Scala: Implicit Parallel Programming for High-Performance Web Services}, booktitle = {International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EuroPar 2012)}, volume = {7484}, year = {2012}, month = {August}, pages = {626{\textendash}637}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, address = {Rhodes Island, Greece}, keywords = {Node.JS, REST, Scala, scalability, Web services}, isbn = {978-3-642-32819-0}, url = {http://sosoa.inf.unisi.ch/files/sosoa_europar2012.pdf}, author = {Daniele Bonetta and Danilo Ansaloni and Achille Peternier and Cesare Pautasso and Walter Binder} } @inproceedings {sosoa:2011, title = {Towards Self-Organizing Service-Oriented Architectures}, year = {2011}, month = {July}, pages = {115-121}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Washington, DC, USA}, abstract = {Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) provide a successful model for structuring complex distributed software systems, as they reduce the cost of ownership and ease the creation of new applications by composing existing services. However, currently, the development of service-oriented applications requires many manual tasks and prevailing infrastructure is often based on centralized components that are central points of failure and easily become bottlenecks. In this paper, we promote self-organizing SOA as a new approach to overcome these limitations. Self-organizing SOA integrates research results in the areas of autonomic and service oriented computing. We consider self-organizing features for the whole life-cycle of a service-oriented application, from the creation to the execution, optimization, and monitoring.}, keywords = {autonomic computing, monitoring, self-organizing service-oriented architecture, service composition, service oriented computing, Web services}, doi = {10.1109/SERVICES.2011.44}, author = {Walter Binder and Daniele Bonetta and Cesare Pautasso and Achille Peternier and Diego Milano and Heiko Schuldt and Nenad Stojnic and Boi Faltings and Immanuel Trummer} } @conference {jopera:2010:soca, title = {Exploiting multicores to optimize business process execution}, booktitle = {International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2010)}, year = {2010}, month = {December}, pages = {1-8}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Perth, Australia}, abstract = {While modern CPUs offer an increasing number of cores with shared caches, prevailing execution engines for business processes, workflows, or Web service compositions have not been optimized for properly exploiting the abundant processing resources of such CPUs. One factor limiting performance is the inefficient thread scheduling by the operating system, which can result in suboptimal use of shared caches. In this paper we study performance of the JOpera business process execution engine on a recent multicore machine. By analyzing the engine{\textquoteright}s architecture and by binding threads that are likely to access shared data to cores with a common cache, we achieve speedups up to 13\% for a variety of workloads, without modifying the engine{\textquoteright}s architecture and implementation, apart from binding threads to CPUs. As the engine is implemented in Java, we provide a new Java library to manage thread bindings and hardware performance counters. We also leverage hardware performance counters to explain the observed speedup in our performance analysis.}, keywords = {business data processing, business process execution engines, business process execution optimization, hardware performance counters, Java, JOpera, multicores, performance optimization, thread-CPU bindings, Web service composition, Web services, workflow}, doi = {10.1109/SOCA.2010.5707156}, author = {Achille Peternier and Daniele Bonetta and Cesare Pautasso and Walter Binder} } @conference {jopera:2010:apscc, title = {A Multicore-Aware Runtime Architecture for Scalable Service Composition}, booktitle = {5th Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC 2010)}, year = {2010}, month = {December}, pages = {83-90}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Hangzhou, China}, abstract = {Middleware for web service orchestration, such as runtime engines for executing business processes, workflows, or web service compositions, can easily become performance bottlenecks when the number of concurrent service requests increases. Many existing process execution engines have been designed to address scalability with distribution and replication techniques. However, the advent of modern multicore machines, comprising several chip multi-processors each offering multiple cores and often featuring a large shared cache, offers the opportunity to redesign the architecture of process execution engines in order to take full advantage of the underlying hardware resources. In this paper we present an innovative process execution engine architecture. Its design takes into account the specific constraints of multicore machines and scales well on different processor architectures, as shown by our extensive performance evaluation. A key feature of the design is self-configuration at startup according to the type and number of available CPUs. We show that our design makes efficient use of the available resources and can scale to run thousands of concurrent business process instances per second, highlighting the potential and the benefits for multicore-awareness in the design of scalable process execution engines.}, keywords = {middleware, multicore-aware runtime architecture, multicores, process execution engine, Web service composition, Web services}, doi = {10.1109/APSCC.2010.61}, author = {Daniele Bonetta and Achille Peternier and Cesare Pautasso and Walter Binder} }