Multi-Tenant SOA Middleware for Cloud Computing

Following are the slides for my talk on WSO2 carbon multi-tenancy architecture at Cloud 2010, two weeks back. The paper describes the WSO2 Statos multi-tenancy Architecture .

Multi-Tenant SOA Middleware for Cloud Computing

The full paper can be found here. The citation of the paper is given below.
Afkham Azeez, Srinath Perera, Dimuthu Gamage, Ruwan Linton,  Prabath Siriwardana, Dimuthu Leelaratne, Sanjiva Weerawarana, Paul Fremantle, "Multi-Tenant SOA Middleware for Cloud Computing" 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing, Florida, 2010.

Abstract
Enterprise IT infrastructure incurs many costs ranging from hardware costs and software  licenses/maintenance costs to the costs of monitoring, managing, and maintaining IT infrastructure. The recent advent of cloud computing offers some tangible prospects of reducing some of those costs; however, abstractions provided by cloud computing are often inadequate to provide major cost savings across the IT infrastructure life-cycle. Multi-tenancy, which allows a single application to emulate multiple application instances, has been proposed as a solution to this problem. By sharing one application across many tenants, multi-tenancy attempts to replace many small application instances with one or few large instances thus bringing down the overall cost of IT infrastructure. In this paper, we present an architecture for achieving multi-tenancy at the SOA level, which enables users to run their services and other SOA artifacts in a multi-tenant SOA framework as well as provides an environment to build multi-tenant applications. We discuss architecture, design decisions, and problems encountered, together with potential solutions when applicable. Primary contributions of this paper are motivating multitenancy, and the design and implementation of a multitenant SOA platform which allows users to run their current applications in a multi-tenant environment with minimal or no modifications.

Towards Improved Data Dissemination of Publish-Subscribe Systems

Last week I presented the paper Towards Improved Data Dissemination of Publish-Subscribe Systems at ICWS 2010. It is based on work done with Rmaith and Dinesh on improving WS-Messenger from Indiana as a part of Open Grid Computing Environment Project.

Abstract: with the proliferation of internet technologies, publish/subscribe systems have gained wide usage as a middleware. However for this model, catering large number of publishers and subscribers while retaining acceptable performance is still a challenge. Therefore, this paper presents two parallelization strategies to improve message delivery of such systems. Furthermore, we discuss other techniques which can be adopted to increase the performance of the middleware. Finally, we conclude with an empirical study, which establishes the comparative merit of those two parallelization strategies in contrast to serial implementations.

Mainly it discusses how to implement parallel message delivery in a Pub/Sub broker while keeping the partial order of events. Slides are given below.

View more presentations from Srinath Perera.