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Developing Bleeding-edge microservice solutions for complex problems : Non-intrusive technology in Walking Meetings

by Vignesh Meenakshi Sundaram

The last decade has seen an emergence of various types of cloud services and development frameworks offered by leading companies in the software industry. While each of these services has been used to solve specific tasks, their specifications have changed over time as they have matured. Therefore, integrating these components to solve a whole new task tends to get tricky due to their incompatible and experimental nature. While some technology components might continue to be developed, others might deprecate. In this thesis, using a user-centered design and agile development approach, we have attempted to develop a cloud solution using microservice software architecture by integrating state-of-the-art technology components to solve a totally new task of providing a non-intrusive technology experience during walking meetings. We present our results based on interaction with the research group, user studies as a part of the research study Movement of the mind, and expectations of the working prototype within the context of walking meetings. We also present the features of the prototype and our motivation for choosing the tools to develop them. Finally, we discuss the development challenges faced during our attempt and conclude whether it is plausible to integrate various components of bleeding-edge technology to solve complex real-life problems or rather wait for these technologies to mature. Under det senaste decenniet har marknaden erbjudits en mngd olika typer av molntjnster och utvecklings-ramverk framtagna av ledande fretag inom mjukvaruindustrin. Dessa tjnster har ofta anvnts fr att lsa specifika uppgifter. Olika komponenterna som ingr i dessa specifika lsningar har med tiden utvecklats ndrats allteftersom de har mognat. Att integrera dessa komponenter fr att lsa en helt ny uppgift tenderar drfr att bli svrt p grund av deras instabila, inkompatibla och experimentella karaktr. Medan vissa teknikkomponenter kan fortstta att utvecklas kan andra avstanna och utg. Vi har nrmat oss detta problemomrde genom agil och iterativ utveckling samt anvndar-centrerad design-metod. En moln-baserad lsning som bland annat integrerat bleeding-edge teknikkomponenter har utvecklats och utvrderats med syfte att ge en icke-ptrngande tekniskt support fr g-mten. De resultat som hr presenteras och diskuteras baseras p interaktion med forskargruppen inom projektet "Med rrelse i tankarna", anvndarstudier och anvndartesteter i flt p olika arbetsplatser dr den prototyp som utvecklats skt motsvara anvndarnas utryckta frvntningar p tekniskt support fr gngmten. Vi diskuterar ocks prototypens egenskaper och vr motivation fr val av metoder fr att utveckla den. Slutligen diskuterar vi de utvecklingsutmaningar vi stlldes infr under vrt frsk och om det r rimligt att integrera olika bleeding-edge komponenter fr att lsa komplexa verkliga problem eller huruvida man hellre br vnta p att dessa teknologier ntt en stabilare mognadsgrad.