OSS 2019
Sun 26 - Mon 27 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada
co-located with ICSE 2019
Mon 27 May 2019 14:15 - 14:30 at Mansfield - Practitioners Session 2

Open Source software solutions play a critical role for the SMEs by enabling easy access to reusable software. Also, with the rapid growth in the popularity of the cloud technologies, computational demands of SMEs are cost-efficiently met by the public clouds as users can dynamically acquire resources on demand according to their needs. However, non-standardized cloud interfaces, lack of inter-cloud transparency, and complex cost models, often result in vendor lock-in. Once in vendor lock-in, cloud users have to live with a single cloud provider and accept whatever pricing schemes and SLAs are imposed. Moreover, new regulations covered by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe require companies to enforce policies regarding secure storage of data in the cloud, as well as restrict moving confidential datasets outside Europe. This situation requires a more transparent use of cloud resources from multiple cloud providers, that conform with user’s data privacy needs, service requirements, and budget. In this paper, we discuss challenges and pitfalls of designing a Cross-Cloud DevOps stack for an app-based extension platform of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. The fully-automated DevOps stack, based on open source software tools and technologies, has been developed in close coordination with an open source integration project, Melodic. With the help of our DevOps stack, third-party apps in our CRM software are now Multi- Cloud ready, and the data storage in the cloud by the users conforms to potential GDPR requirements. In addition, the deployment time of apps has been reduced to minutes, while the platform is able to scale up and scale down apps efficiently based on the current workload requirements, saving substantial cloud costs.

Mon 27 May

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14:00 - 14:45
Practitioners Session 2OSS 2019 Papers at Mansfield
14:00
15m
Experience report
Introducing Agile Product Owners in a FLOSS Project
OSS 2019 Papers
Matthias Müller Institute of Software Technology, Graz University of Technology , Christian Schindler Institute of Software Technology, Graz University of Technology , Wolfgang Slany Institute of Software Technology, Graz University of Technology
14:15
15m
Experience report
Building an Open-Source Cross-Cloud DevOps stack for a CRM Enterprise Application: A Case Study
OSS 2019 Papers
Sebastian Schork CAS Software AG, Karlsruhe, Germany, Feroz Zahid Simula Research Laboratory, Norway, Dipesh Pradhan Simula Research Laboratory, Norway, Sébastien Kicin CAS Software AG, Karlsruhe, Germany, Antonia Schwichtenberg CAS Software AG, Karlsruhe, Germany
14:30
15m
Experience report
Open Source Vulnerability Notification
OSS 2019 Papers
Brandon Carlson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, Kevin Leach University of Michigan, Darko Marinov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mei Nagappan University of Waterloo, Atul Prakash University of Michigan