Using Containers to Enforce Smart Constraints for Performance in Industrial Systems

Today, software engineering is concerned less with individual programs than with large-scale networks of interacting programs. For large-scale networks, engineering problems emerge that go well beyond functional correctness (the purview of programming) and encompass equally crucial nonfunctional qualities such as security, performance, availability, and fault tolerance. A pivotal challenge, then, is to provide techniques to routinely construct systems that have predictable nonfunctional quality. These techniques impose constraints on the problem being solved and on the form solutions can take. This technical note shows how smart constraints can be embedded in software infrastructure, so that systems conforming to those constraints are predictable by construction.

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Authors

Scott Hissam

Gabriel Moreno

Kurt C. Wallnau

Technical Note
CMU/SEI-2005-TN-040
August 2005

Cite This Report

SEI:

Hissam, Scott; Moreno, Gabriel; & Wallnau, Kurt. Using Containers to Enforce Smart Constraints for Performance in Industrial Systems (CMU/SEI-2005-TN-040). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/05tn040.cfm

IEEE:

S. Hissam, G. Moreno, and K. Wallnau, "Using Containers to Enforce Smart Constraints for Performance in Industrial Systems," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Note CMU/SEI-2005-TN-040, 2005. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/05tn040.cfm

APA:

Hissam, S., Moreno, G., & Wallnau, K. (2005). Using Containers to Enforce Smart Constraints for Performance in Industrial Systems (CMU/SEI-2005-TN-040). Retrieved May 26, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/05tn040.cfm

CHI:

Hissam, Scott, Gabriel Moreno, and Kurt Wallnau. Using Containers to Enforce Smart Constraints for Performance in Industrial Systems (CMU/SEI-2005-TN-040). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/05tn040.cfm

MLA:

Hissam, S., Moreno, G., & Wallnau, K. 2005. Using Containers to Enforce Smart Constraints for Performance in Industrial Systems (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2005-TN-040). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/05tn040.cfm

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