Project RAINDROP from UCLouvain and UNamur

RAINDROP aims to address in a unique way the challenge of building, deploying, and operating applications on upcoming cloud infrastructures formed of a continuum of core (data centers) and edge resources. Read more.

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ICSA 2025

A paper accepted at ICSA 2025's NEMI track

The paper “Data Access-centered Understanding of Microservices Architectures” has been accepted to ICSA 2025 in the NEMI track.

In this paper, we present a new approach to to systematically identify and analyze data access code fragments in complex applications composed of multiple microservices and distributed across multiple codebases. This result aims to recover a holistic, data-centric view of interactions between these services and databases.

Maxime will present this paper early April 2025 in Odense (Danemark).

ICPC 2025

A paper accepted at ICPC 2025's ERA track

The paper “Understanding Data Access in Microservices Applications Using Interactive Treemaps” has been accepted to ICPC 2025 (co-located with ICSE 2025) in the ERA track.

In this paper, we present a new approach to support the understanding of data access in microservices architectures using interactive treemaps. This result contributes in identifying technology breakdown patterns, analyzing the impact of data concept changes, comparing system versions to track evolution or refactoring scenarios, and highlighting particular code patterns. This promising approach can be used to aid in decision-making for refactoring and evolution strategies.

Maxime will present this paper late April 2025 in Ottawa (Canada).

This paper has been co-authored with researchers of the REVEAL research group at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano (Switzerland) where Maxime is doing a research stay. This collaboration is supported by the SofinaBoël Fund for Education and Talent.

Grascomp Doctoral Day 2024

Carole and Maxime presented their research at the Grascomp Doctoral Day 2024 in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)

Carole and Maxime each presented a poster vulgarizing their research topic at Grascomp’s GDD 2024.

The poster of Maxime is Supporting Database Evolution in Microservices.

SIESTA 2024

Maxime presented his works at SIESTA 2024 in Bari (Italy)

On September 4, 2024, Maxime presented his works at the SIESTA 2024.

SofinaBoël 2024

Maxime is laureate of a SofinaBoël Fund for Education and Talent 2024 fellowship

Maxime has been named laureate of the prestigious SofinaBoël Fund for Education and Talent 2024 scholarship. In October 2024, he joined the REVEAL research group at the Software Institute of the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Lugano (Switzerland). Under the supervision of Prof. Michele Lanza, he devoted six months to a research stay, deepening his research in the context of the RAINDROP project.

Read more: UNamur, FNRS.