Software Sustainability in the Age of Everything as a Service

Andrikopoulos, Vasilios; Lago, Patricia

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-73203-5_3

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“…This might have been understandable and acceptable while the field was still in its inception, but with its increasing maturity it becomes important to be able to deal with the multidimensionality of sustainability in a structured and holistic manner. Assuming that the identified gaps in the state of the art begin to be covered by the previous items in this agenda, an appropriate architecting framework as discussed in [30] would then be necessary for integrating them into one coherent solution. The most important element of this framework would be providing a connection between the various architecting activities and their effect, both direct and indirect, to each dimension.…”

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Sustainability in Software Architecture: A Systematic Mapping Study

Andrikopoulos¹,

Boza²,

Perales³

et al. 2022

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Sustainability is an increasingly-studied topic in software engineering in general, and in software architecture in particular. There are already a number of secondary studies addressing sustainability in software engineering, but no such study focusing explicitly on software architecture. This work aims to fill this gap by conducting a systematic mapping study on the intersection between sustainability and software architecture research with the intention of (i) reflecting on the current state of the art, and (ii) identifying the needs for further research. Our results show that, overall, existing works have focused disproportionately on specific aspects of sustainability, and in particular on the most technical and "inward facing" ones. This comes at the expense of the holistic perspective required to address a multi-faceted concern such as sustainability. Furthermore, more reflection-oriented research works, and better coverage of the activities in the architecting life cycle are required to further the maturity of the area. Based on our findings we then propose a research agenda for sustainability-aware software architecture.

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confidence: 99%

Sustainability in Software Architecture: A Systematic Mapping Study

Andrikopoulos¹,

Boza²,

Perales³

et al. 2022

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“…Early studies defined sustainability either as the longevity of the software [15,[55][56][57] or focused on environmental sustainability in terms of energy consumption [16,[58][59][60][61]. A recent line of research has established that sustainable software can only be achieved holistically by addressing multiple dimensions of sustainability [13,20,25,62,63]. Venters et al [25] emphasized the existence of dependencies and relationships between the different sustainability dimensions, where potential trade-offs must be considered while developing the system.…”

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A Process for Monitoring the Impact of Architecture Principles on Sustainability: An Industrial Case Study

Funke,

Lago,

Verdecchia

et al. 2024

Software

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Architecture principles affect a software system holistically. Given their alignment with a business strategy, they should be incorporated within the validation process covering aspects of sustainability. However, current research discusses the influence of architecture principles on sustainability in a limited context. Our objective was to introduce a reusable process for monitoring and evaluating the impact of architecture principles on sustainability from a software architecture perspective. We sought to demonstrate the application of such a process in professional practice. A qualitative case study was conducted in the context of a Dutch airport management company. Data collection involved a case analysis and the execution of two rounds of expert interviews. We (i) identified a set of case-related key performance indicators, (ii) utilized commonly accepted measurement tools, and (iii) employed graphical representations in the form of spider charts to monitor the sustainability impacts. The real-world observations were evaluated through a concluding focus group. Our findings indicated that architecture principles were a feasible mechanism with which to address sustainability across all different architecture layers within the enterprise. The experts considered the sustainability analysis valuable in guiding the software architecture process towards sustainability. With the emphasis on principles, we facilitate industry adoption by embedding sustainability in existing mechanisms.

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“…Sustainability is becoming a relevant topic in all fields, including IT. Sustainability includes four aspects: technical, economical, social, and environmental [11]. Reference architectures, standards, and metrics are needed to enable practitioners to analyze, design, evaluate, and maintain software systems in collaboration with other stakeholders.…”

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“…Energy reduction should be a shared responsibility between the cloud provider and the application provider (or cloud consumer) [22]. However, application providers usually lack information to improve their environmental impact [23] while, on the other hand, cloud providers see the applications they host as black boxes [11]. Limited attempts have been made to include sustainability in the application design of Green Information Systems (Green IS) by taking the application provider's perspective.…”

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Enriching Cloud-native Applications with Sustainability Features

Vitali,

Schmiedmayer,

Bootz

2023

2023 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E)

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Due to the ever-growing demand for computational resources, the environmental impact of data centers is continuously increasing. Recently, a great effort has been made to mitigate this impact, while the demand for computational resources has continued to grow. Current mitigation strategies focus on the infrastructure perspective, while the application perspective has been neglected. This paper aims to engage application designers and developers on the path to greener application design. Following the Sustainable Application Design Process (SADP) methodology, we introduce a Sustainable Application Design Architecture (SADA) for enriching cloud-native application components with sustainability features that can be exploited to adapt the application workflow to the environmental context. The architecture enables synergies from design to deployment between all stakeholders involved in the application management. The paper focuses on enriching the application with sustainability features in the design and development phases. We also present and discuss a prototype that can translate designlevel sustainability features into development features.

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Software Sustainability in the Age of Everything as a Service

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Sustainability in Software Architecture: A Systematic Mapping Study

Sustainability in Software Architecture: A Systematic Mapping Study

A Process for Monitoring the Impact of Architecture Principles on Sustainability: An Industrial Case Study

Enriching Cloud-native Applications with Sustainability Features

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