Prof. Flavio De Paoli
University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Cloud computing and Internet of Things are imposing a dramatic change in software development and delivery processes. Moreover, ICT solutions are paving innovation in every sector and therefore becoming a business factor for the success of any enterprise. The implications are manifold since technical issues need to be harmonized with social, organizational and legal aspects.
In this course we discuss and comment the current trends to identify research directions to build services as comprehensive components providing APIs. Machine-readable semantic descriptions, microservices (single-function services), and containers (independent units of deployment) are discussed as building blocks for software architectures of the future. The goal is to deliver services ecosystems, which call for open platforms to manage services that can connect and interact with a shared protocol in dynamic heterogeneous contexts.