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The need for acknowledging and managing sustainability as an essential quality of software systems has been steadily increasing over the past few years, in part as a reaction to the implications of “software eating the world”. Especially the widespread adoption of the Everything as a Service (*aaS) model of delivering software and (virtualized) hardware through cloud computing has put two sustainability dimensions upfront and center. On the one hand, services must be sustainable on a technical level by ensuring continuity of operations for both providers and consumers despite, or even better, while taking into account their evolution. On the other hand, the prosuming of services must also be financially sustainable for the involved stakeholders.
In this work, we discuss the need for a software architecting approach that encompasses in a holistic manner the other two dimensions of software sustainability as well, namely the social and environmental aspects of services. We highlight relevant works and identify key challenges still to be addressed in the context of software systems operating across different models for cloud delivery and deployment. We then present our vision for an architecting framework that allows system stakeholders to work in tandem towards improving a set of sustainability indicators specifically tailored for the *aaS model.
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As famously noted by Marc Andreessen in his 2011 Wall Street Journal interview.
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6 Oct. 2020.
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Andrikopoulos, V., Lago, P. (2021). Software Sustainability in the Age of Everything as a Service. In: Aiello, M., Bouguettaya, A., Tamburri, D.A., van den Heuvel, WJ. (eds) Next-Gen Digital Services. A Retrospective and Roadmap for Service Computing of the Future. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12521. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73203-5_3
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