TeaStore: A Micro-Service Reference Application for Benchmarking, Modeling and Resource Management Research

Benchmarking as Empirical Standard in Software Engineering Research

“…The TeaStore is an online store for tea and tea related utilities [34]. The TeaStore benchmark application has been used as a distributed system for evaluating and extracting software performance models, for testing single and multi-tier auto-scalers, and for software energy-efficiency analysis and management.…”

An Experimental Evaluation of the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler in the Cloud

“…Other works employ the SPEC Cloud Group metrics to report on the performance of newly-proposed autoscalers [4], [16]- [18]. Similar to [16] and [17], we use a microservices application as one of our test applications. However, our work is focused strictly on the Kubernetes autoscaler and not on general-purpose autoscalers.…”

“…In E2, we use a microservices-based test and reference application -TeaStore [17] -composed of six services. We chose this application as a representative because Kubernetes is preferred to run microservices as it makes it easy to run the loosely coupled, self-contained components using containers and also provides abstractions for service discovery.…”

Self-managed services using MirageOS unikernels

“…This includes studying the implications of various factors including the speed of bottleneck detection, VM startup time, resource/service discovery and load balancing as well as the granularity of resource allocations and duration of cooling down times. A self-scaling architecture would be mainly evaluated against an appropriate elasticity benchmark [6] using a set of reference applications (such as [8]). I plan to start from Mirage unikernels as an extreme case of lightweight execution units and compare to a representative spectrum of deployment options including VMs, containers, and other approaches to kernel specialization.…”