@conference {2022:sose:ccc, title = {Cargo-Cult Containerization: A Critical View of Containers in Modern Software Development}, booktitle = {16th International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2022)}, year = {2022}, month = {August}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {San Francisco, USA}, abstract = {Software is increasingly developed and deployed using containers. While the concept of a container is conceptually straightforward, there are various issues to be considered while using them, ranging from technical details inside containers to the orchestration of containers that jointly form a meaningful application. In recent years, the use of containers has become so prevalent that developers have a tendency to resort to cargo-cult containerization {\textendash} ritual adherence to the use of containers just because so many others are doing the same thing. In this paper, we study advantages and downsides of containers in modern- day software development. We foresee the use of containers to spread into new areas, including IoT systems and embedded devices. At the same time, we caution against indiscriminate use of containers, since excessive containerization can have adverse impacts on software maintenance and overall complexity of a system architecture.}, keywords = {containers, software architecture}, author = {Tommi Mikkonen and Cesare Pautasso and Kari Systa and Antero Taivalsaari} } @conference {2017:icsa:web, title = {Comparing the Built-In Application Architecture Models in the Web Browser}, booktitle = {1st IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2017)}, year = {2017}, month = {April}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Gothenburg, Sweden}, abstract = {Depending on one{\textquoteright}s viewpoint, a generic standards-compatible web browser supports three, four or five built-in application rendering and programming models. In this paper, we provide an overview of the built-in client-side web application architectures. While the dominance of the base HTML/CSS/JS technologies cannot be ignored, we foresee Web Components and WebGL gaining popularity as the world moves towards more complex and even richer web applications, including systems supporting virtual and augmented reality.}, keywords = {Web application architecture, Web development, Web engineering}, author = {Antero Taivalsaari and Tommi Mikkonen and Cesare Pautasso and Kari Systa} }