A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
The Problem Cloud networking bases on tech and protocols that were not initially designed for it. This has lead to unnecessary overhead and complexity in all phases of a cloud service. Tunneling protocols generate inherent cascading and encapsulation especially in multi tenant systems. The problem increases by vendor specific configuration requirements and heterogenous architectures. This complexity […]
The Service Engineering Research Area (ICCLab, SPLab) adopts a comprehensive and holistic approach to science. The entire approach is based on three driving principles, namely Scientific Foundation, Strategic Impact, and Knowledge Transfer. The entire scientific work of both labs is aligned and directed along these inter-linked dimensions. Scientific Foundation The importance of a sound foundation […]
In the early and mid-2000s, there has been a tremendous research activity around service-oriented architectures (SOA) and service-oriented computing (SOC). Many of the results remained on paper only. Meanwhile, though, the increasing use of cloud computing services and the forecast on fog computing has brought the necessity for dedicated service research and service prototyping back […]
Cloud infrastructure and platform technology has matured a lot since the foundation of ICCLab. Eventually, applications and services running on top are the key concerns to users entering into an interaction. Web applications, mobile apps, interactive devices and business processes are increasingly service-based and benefit from contextual awareness about the elastic scalability, the on-demand procurement […]
This post will describe how to set up Foreman and provision an OpenStack environment via PackStack. We demonstrate this through OpenStack installation on two Nodes. Foreman 1.8 is used to install the Host System on the Nodes and PackStack to provision OpenStack. Installing Foreman First thing we do is installing Foreman on the management host inside a VM […]
Lidia joined ICCLab in July 2015. She is currently finishing her Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunication Technologies and Services Engineering at UPM (Technical University of Madrid), with a specialization in Telematic. She found this opportunity through IAESTE. This is her second internship: in the first internship, she worked in a private company in Poland, also through […]
Manu is a Computer Engineering student from Mataró, Barcelona. He is currently in his final year of studies at the Technocampus, Barcelona. He joined the ICCLab through the IAESTE internship program and is working as an intern from the 1st of July. He is very interested in learning new things, news technologies, meeting friends, sports […]
Overview Service hosting platforms such as IaaS and PaaS offer a lot of convenience for the service engineer. They take care of proper provisioning, scaling, healing and profiling. Yet, this platform support is limited when it comes to decisions which require insight into the application state and logic, especially considering applications or services ranging across […]
Overview From a datacenter operator or cloud provider point of view, IT services are intangible entities which must run reliably 24/7, be provisioned on demand with the right scale, and be documented and certified properly. In the Service Operations research initiative of the Service Prototyping Lab, we take a closer look at the needs of […]
This page is kept for archiving. Please navigate to our new site: blog.zhaw.ch/splab. Overview Working with remote services requires appropriate and decent tooling. A service idea may take just five seconds (“I want to offer a robust note-taking service”), but its realisation may take much longer (“Which programming language and model?”, “How to describe the […]