Shriram Rajagopalan and Hani Jamjoom
USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud)
Santa Clara, CA, June 2015
Abstract. The microservice and DevOps approach to software design has
resulted in new software features being delivered
immediately to users, instead of waiting for long
refresh cycles. On the downside, software bugs and
performance regressions have now become an important
cause of downtime. We propose app-bisect, an
autonomous tool to troubleshoot and repair such
software issues in production environments. Our
insight is that the evolution of microservices in an
application can be captured as mutations to the
graph of microservice dependencies, such that a
particular version of the graph from the past can be
deployed automatically, as an interim measure until
the problem is permanently fixed. Using canary
testing and version-aware routing techniques, we
describe how the search process can be sped up to
identify such a candidate version. We present the
overall design and key challenges towards
implementing such a system.
Keywords. Microservice, DevOps, Monitoring, Failure Recovery
Bibtex.
@inproceedings{jamjoom-appbisect-hotcloud-2015,
author = {Shriram and Rajagopalan and Hani and Jamjoom},
title = {{App–Bisect: Autonomous Healing for Microservice-Based Apps}},
booktitle = {USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud)},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
month = {June},
year = {2015}
}