Speaker: Nabor Mendonça Affiliation: University of Fortaleza, Brazil Location: Innovation Center, Room 2277 Time: Friday 7/26/2019 (2 - 3pm) Host: Pooyan Jamshidi (Please contact me if you want to meet with the speaker) Abstract: In this talk I'll give a brief overview of how the concept of software architecture has evolved over the last 50 years, from centralized monolithic systems to today's highly distributed cloud-based applications. Then I'll discuss some of the key challenges facing the development of cloud native applications, with a focus on the microservice architectural style and its supporting practices and technologies. Bio: Nabor Mendonça is a full professor in applied informatics at the University of Fortaleza, Brazil. From 2017 to 2018 he was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University, working in David Garlan's ABLE group. His main research areas are software engineering, distributed systems, self-adaptive systems, and cloud computing. Prof. Mendonça has a Ph.D. in computing from Imperial College London.