We Need to Talk about Microservices: an Analysis from the Discussions on StackOverflow (MSR 2019 - Mining Challenge) - MSR 2019

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Sun 26 - Mon 27 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada

co-located with ICSE 2019

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Alan Bandeira, Carlos Filho, Matheus Paixao, Paulo Maia

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MSR 2019 MSR Mining Challenge

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Sun 26 May 2019 17:34 - 17:41 at Place du Canada - Mining Challenge presentations

Abstract

Microservices are a new and rapidly growing architectural model aimed at developing highly scalable software solutions based on independently deployable and evolvable components. Due to its novelty, microservice-related discussions are increasing in Q&A websites, such as StackOverflow (SO). In order to understand what is being discussed by the microservice community, this work has applied mining techniques and topic modelling to a manually-curated dataset of 1,043 microservice- related posts from StackOverflow. As a result, we found that 13.68% of microservice technical posts on SO discuss a single technology: Netflix Eureka. Moreover, buzzwords in the microservice ecosystem, e.g., blue/green deployment, were not identified as relevant subjects of discussion on SO. Finally, we show how a high discussion rate on SO may not reflect the popularity of a certain subject within the microservice community.

Link to Preprint

https://alanpbandeira.github.io/stackoverservices/files/stackoverservices.pdf

Alan Bandeira

Carlos Filho

Matheus Paixao

State University of Ceara, Brazil

Brazil

Paulo Maia

State University of Ceará

Brazil

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	16:00 - 18:00	Mining Challenge presentationsMSR 2019 Mining Challenge at Place du Canada

	16:00 10m Talk		SOTorrent: Studying the Origin, Evolution, and Usage of Stack Overflow Code Snippets MSR 2019 Mining Challenge A: Sebastian Baltes University of Trier, A: Christoph Treude The University of Adelaide, A: Stephan Diehl Computer Science, University Trier, Germany Pre-print
	16:10 7m Talk		Mining Rule Violations in JavaScript Code Snippets MSR 2019 Mining Challenge Uriel Ferreira Campos , Guilherme Smethurst , João Pedro Moraes , Rodrigo Bonifácio University of Brasília, Brazil, Gustavo Pinto UFPA Pre-print
	16:17 7m Talk		Snakes in Paradise?: Insecure Python-related Coding Practices in Stack Overflow MSR 2019 Mining Challenge Akond Rahman North Carolina State University, Effat Farhana , Nasif Imtiaz North Carolina State University Pre-print
	16:24 7m Talk		Man vs Machine -- A Study into language identification of Stackoverflow code snippets MSR 2019 Mining Challenge Jens Dietrich Victoria University of Wellington, Markus Luczak-Roesch , Elroy Dalefield Pre-print
	16:31 7m Talk		Python Coding Style Compliance on Stack Overflow MSR 2019 Mining Challenge Nikolaos Bafatakis , Niels Boecker , Wenjie Boon , Martin Cabello Salazar , Jens Krinke University College London, Gazi Oznacar , Robert White University College London, UK Pre-print Media Attached
	16:38 7m Talk		Towards Mining Answer Edits to Extract Evolution Patterns in Stack Overflow MSR 2019 Mining Challenge Themistoklis Diamantopoulos Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Maria-Ioanna Sifaki Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Andreas Symeonidis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Pre-print Media Attached
	16:45 7m Talk		Analyzing Comment-induced Updates on Stack Overflow MSR 2019 Mining Challenge Abhishek Soni , Sarah Nadi University of Alberta Pre-print
	16:52 7m Talk		What Edits Are Done on Highly Answered Stack Overflow Questions? An Empirical Study MSR 2019 Mining Challenge Xianhao Jin Virginia Tech, USA, Francisco Servant Virginia Tech Pre-print
	16:59 7m Talk		Can Duplicate Posts on Stack Overflow Benefit the Software Development Community? MSR 2019 Mining Challenge Durham Abric McGill University, Oliver Clark , Matthew Caminiti , Keheliya Gallaba McGill University, Shane McIntosh McGill University Pre-print
	17:06 7m Talk		How Often and What StackOverflow Posts Do Developers Reference in Their GitHub Projects? MSR 2019 Mining Challenge Saraj Singh Manes , Olga Baysal Carleton University Pre-print
	17:13 7m Talk		Characterizing Duplicate Code Snippets between Stack Overflow and Tutorials MSR 2019 Mining Challenge Manziba Nishi , Agnieszka Ciborowska , Kostadin Damevski Virginia Commonwealth University Pre-print
	17:20 7m Talk		Challenges with Responding to Static Analysis Tool Alerts MSR 2019 Mining Challenge Nasif Imtiaz North Carolina State University, Akond Rahman North Carolina State University, Effat Farhana , Laurie Williams North Carolina State University Pre-print
	17:27 7m Talk		Impact of stack overflow code snippets on software cohesion: a preliminary study MSR 2019 Mining Challenge Mashal Ahmad , Mel Ó Cinnéide DOI Pre-print
	17:34 7m Talk		We Need to Talk about Microservices: an Analysis from the Discussions on StackOverflow MSR 2019 Mining Challenge Alan Bandeira , Carlos Filho , Matheus Paixao State University of Ceara, Brazil, Paulo Maia State University of Ceará Pre-print Media Attached
	17:41 7m Talk		What do developers know about machine learning: a study of ML discussions on StackOverflow MSR 2019 Mining Challenge Hareem-e-Sahar , Abdul Ali Bangash University of Alberta, Canada, Alexander William Wong , Shaiful Chowdhury University of Alberta, Abram Hindle University of Alberta, Karim Ali University of Alberta
	17:48 12m		Recap + voting MSR 2019 Mining Challenge