ACCORDANT: A Domain Specific Model and DevOpsApproach for Big Data Analytics Architectures
This addresses performance and deployment issues for developers and engineers working with big data analytics, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing DevOps practices.
The paper tackled the software engineering challenges in big data analytics applications by proposing a Domain-Specific Model and DevOps approach, resulting in shorter deployment and monitoring times and a higher gain factor per iteration compared to similar methods.
Big data analytics (BDA) applications use machine learning algorithms to extract valuable insights from large, fast, and heterogeneous data sources. New software engineering challenges for BDA applications include ensuring performance levels of data-driven algorithms even in the presence of large data volume, velocity, and variety (3Vs). BDA software complexity frequently leads to delayed deployments, longer development cycles and challenging performance assessment. This paper proposes a Domain-Specific Model (DSM), and DevOps practices to design, deploy, and monitor performance metrics in BDA applications. Our proposal includes a design process, and a framework to define architectural inputs, software components, and deployment strategies through integrated high-level abstractions to enable QS monitoring. We evaluate our approach with four use cases from different domains to demonstrate a high level of generalization. Our results show a shorter deployment and monitoring times, and a higher gain factor per iteration compared to similar approaches.