Hi Lakmal, Amitabha, devs,

@Amitabha
Great to hear your interest!

We are currently working on a more detailed documenting of our plan with
architectural diagrams. Looking forward to share them and discuss it soon.

Thanks
-Bhathiya


On 27 May 2015 at 09:47, Amitabha Karmakar <amitabha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Team,
>
>  Please count me in, I would love to be hands on, on the effort. Here's my
> linkedin profile:
>
> https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=26872767&trk=hp-identity-photo
>
> Thanks,
> Amitabha Karmakar.
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Lakmal Warusawithana <lak...@wso2.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bhathiya and all,
>>
>> Your proposal will definitely add value to Stratos. I strongly
>> recommending keep working with the community after you folks are started
>> working on design and implementation phases.
>>
>> Good luck! and looking forward to working with you folks.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Supun Bhathiya <
>> bhathiya...@cse.mrt.ac.lk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Imesh,
>>>
>>> Here [1]  is our final year project proposal. We would share the design
>>> diagrams soon.
>>>
>>> [1] -
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q_S7pv6UWUAAM0isWZdlt-c953SImmg2Dfev4g5WzJc/edit
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -Bhathiya
>>>
>>> On 26 May 2015 at 23:42, Supun Bhathiya <bhathiya...@cse.mrt.ac.lk>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Imesh,
>>>>
>>>> Here[1]  is our proposal. We would share the design diagrams of our
>>>> project soon.
>>>>
>>>> On 26 May 2015 at 23:38, Supun Bhathiya <bhathiya...@cse.mrt.ac.lk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> cc'ing to Dr. Dilum Bandara and  Dr. Srinath Perera who would act as
>>>>> internal and external mentors for our project respectively.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 26 May 2015 at 23:23, Supun Bhathiya <bhathiya...@cse.mrt.ac.lk>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 26 May 2015 at 09:35, Imesh Gunaratne <im...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Bhathiya,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's good to see your proposal on improving current Autoscaling
>>>>>>> functionality. This would definitely add value to Stratos. We could plan
>>>>>>> and deliver this functionality in a future version.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It would be great if you could prepare a implementation design for
>>>>>>> your project proposal and discuss it in detail.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:35 PM, Supun Bhathiya <
>>>>>>> bhathiya...@cse.mrt.ac.lk> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Imesh,Lakmal, Lahiru, Devs,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is intended to formalize the discussion we had on $subject,
>>>>>>>> on behalf of our final year project, " *Workload and Resource
>>>>>>>> Aware, Proactive Auto-scaling for PaaS Sytems* ".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Our project is aimed at adding the following features and
>>>>>>>> improvements to Apache Stratos.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1 - Improved  Workload Prediction
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Currently Stratos autoscaler predict *immediate future load* based
>>>>>>>> on current (in memory) health statistic.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We propose to improve the auto-scaling  mechanism to *predict
>>>>>>>> workload for larger period of time by persisting and analyzing past
>>>>>>>> statistics.*
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2 - Smart resource allocation and deallocation
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Currently Stratos is not fully aware of all the resources provided
>>>>>>>> by various IaaS and its pricing models. Therefore when scaling up, 
>>>>>>>> Stratos
>>>>>>>> always spin-up an instance of same type. On the other hand kill a 
>>>>>>>> randomly
>>>>>>>> selected instance when scaling down.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We propose to improve this mechanism by selecting resources based
>>>>>>>> on application workload patterns, available resource types and pricing 
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> resources. For example allocating memory optimized instance would be 
>>>>>>>> cost
>>>>>>>> effective for some application while some other application require 
>>>>>>>> high
>>>>>>>> CPU but less memory. Also scale down mechanism can be improved by
>>>>>>>> introducing  features like "smart killing".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 3 - Visualizing
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We propose to implement graph base view of
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>    -  Predicted vs actual workloads
>>>>>>>>    -  Optimized vs normal resource usage
>>>>>>>>    -  Cost prediction
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We are glad to share our preliminary design concerns with the
>>>>>>>> community and value your feedback and suggestions on our attempt.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>> -Bhathiya
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Imesh Gunaratne
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Senior Technical Lead, WSO2
>>>>>>> Committer & PMC Member, Apache Stratos
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Lakmal Warusawithana
>> Vice President, Apache Stratos
>> Director - Cloud Architecture; WSO2 Inc.
>> Mobile : +94714289692
>> Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
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