Microsoft Research, Cambridge
2pm Thursday 6th December 2007
Room 2511, JCMB, King's Buildings
Note nonstandard day and time
Management is one of the main expenses of running the server farms that implement enterprise services, and operator errors can be costly. Our goal is to develop type-safe programming mechanisms for combining and managing enterprise services, and we achieve this goal in the particular setting of farms of virtual machines. We assume each server is service-oriented, in the sense that the services it provides, and the external services it depends upon, are explicitly described in metadata. We describe the design, implementation, and formal semantics of a library of combinators whose types record and respect server metadata. We describe a series of programming examples run on our implementation, based on existing server code for order processing, a typical data centre workload.
Joint work with: Karthikeyan Bhargavan (MSR Cambridge), Iman Narasamdya (University of Manchester)