Meeting Thu, November 6, 2014 @ 10:00-11:30h (time zone: CET/Berlin time), Room CAP4 1210 / Adobe Connect

• See our instructions on how to join (in person or via web conference)

List of Participants

• André
• Nils
• Willi
• Reiner

1. Presentations/demonstrations today

• Please make suggestions for possible presentations in future meetings!

2. Kieker @ XY + Related Events

a. Passed Since Last Meeting

• ...

b. Upcoming

•  Symposium on Software Performance 2014 (Descartes/Kieker/Palladio Days)
  • Topics for wiki:Meetings/meeting-20141126
• Disputation Jan Waller, Dec 12, 2014, 1PM
• GSoC 2015
  • GSoC 2015:  http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/10/google-summer-of-code-2015-and-google.html
  • About GSoC:  http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015
  • Timeline:  http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015
• Talk by Ana Nicolaescu (U Aachen) in next regular meeting -> send date to Ana
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3. Release Planning/Roadmap

• Kieker 1.10 released on Oct 15, 2014
  • Release notes: #1372
• Kieker 1.11 scheduled for April 1, 2015

4. Status of Current Activities

> MISC

a. Web Site/Trac

• Live demo updates
• Blog
  • Ideas for upcoming posts? (existing ticket for this?)
  • Blog entry on Eprints by C. Zirkelbach? -> #1525
• Update of features page (+ figures in presentations), suggestions Willi:
  • Data Bridge + DiSL probe (Probes/Samplers)
  • Binary monitoring writers/readers (Writers/Readers)
  • TSLib, OPAD (Performance Analysis)
  • Coloring, Trace Analysis GUI (Architecture reconstruction)
  • ExplorViz (Architecture Reconstruction)

b. Web GUI

• Roadmap -> towards an Open APM Tool?
• Cockpit/Display concept
• Web cast?
• Feature wish: built-in support for APM, profiling etc. (example projects?)

c. TeeTime as P&F framework

• ...

5. Research and Teaching Context

Research Projects/Collaborations

• PubFlow
• iObserve
• Ensure
• Hora
• diagnoseIT
• RG DevOps Performance WG

Study Theses

• Open: List of possible topics

• Recently completed (since last meeting):
  • A. Flaig: Dynamic instrumentation/adaptive monitoring using runtime bytecode engineering with Kieker (BSc)
  • Please include recently completed theses here and announce them via the kieker-research list

• Running:
  • ...
• Upcoming:
  • ...

Student Projects

• Recently completed (since last meeting):
  • Please include recently completed projects here and announce them via the kieker-research list

• Running:
  • Bachelor's Specialist Research ("Fachstudien")
    •  Evaluation of tools for performance data analysis and visualization (in collaboration with Capgemini)

• Upcoming:
  • ...

6. Descartes/Kieker/Palladio Days 2014

•  http://www.performance-symposium.org/2014/
• Please register via  http://www.performance-symposium.org/2014/registration/
• Dates:
  • Internal meeting: Nov Wed 26, 2014 (afternoon) -> Need approx. number of participants
  • Main program: Nov, Thu 27 (morning!) to Fri 28, 2014 (afternoon)
• Ideas list
• Web site updates: About page to be updated

7. Misc

• Ideas for Future Activities

Open table

Next meetings

• Wed, November 26, 2014 @ 15:00-18:30h (time zone: CET/Berlin time)
• Mon, December 15, 2014 @ 10:00-11:30h (time zone: CET/Berlin time)

Topics for future meetings

• Reiner (monitoring C programs)
• Christian, Nils (restructuring analysis (asynchronous; buffers), (not)use of EMF for analysis configurations) -> Kieker/Palladio Days?
• Create SIGs?
  • e.g., to coordinate/consolidate distributed efforts on common topics)
  • They may be permanent or temporary
  • Example SIGs
    • Kieker.APM
      • Web UI
      • Anomaly detection
      • Distributed tracing
      • Adaptive instrumentation
      • Self-*
    • Benchmarking
    • Performance testing (incl. CI env.)
    • Model extraction/architecture discovery
    • Visualization
    • Usability
    • Analysis framework
    • Model-driven instrumentation and analysis
    • ...
  • Could associate tickets with SIGs
  • Trac/Web site for SIG with roadmap w.r.t. planned Kieker features in this area
  • May include non-Kieker associates which are specialists in this field