Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 2. Building Products

  • Can a Domain-Specific Language Improve Program Structure Comprehension of Data Pipelines? A Mixed-Method Study [EMSE Journal]

    Can a Domain-Specific Language Improve Program Structure Comprehension of Data Pipelines? A Mixed-Method Study [EMSE Journal]

    Abstract In many application domains, domain-specific languages can allow domain experts to contribute to collaborative projects more correctly and efficiently. To do so, they must be able to understand program structure from reading existing source code. With high-quality data becoming an increasingly important resource, the creation of data pipelines is an important application domain for…

  • Documenting Microservice Integration with MSAdoc [Internetware 2025]

    Documenting Microservice Integration with MSAdoc [Internetware 2025]

    Abstract Microservices are a popular software architectural style that decomposes a large application into smaller services. These microservices integrate at runtime to deliver business value to the users. With an increasing number of microservices, software projects become more difficult to manage. Specifically, maintaining consistent and up-to-date documentation becomes a challenge that can significantly affect the…

  • Open source license obligations: Attribution and copyleft [Computer Magazine]

    Open source license obligations: Attribution and copyleft [Computer Magazine]

    I’m happy to report that the 36th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. As always, please consider writing an article proposal! Title Open Source License Obligations: Attribution and Copyleft Keywords Open source, open source license, open-source software, copyleft, attribution […] Authors Dirk Riehle Publication Computer vol. 58, no. 8…

  • Balancing technology heterogeneity in microservice architectures [EMSE Journal]

    Balancing technology heterogeneity in microservice architectures [EMSE Journal]

    Abstract Microservices are a popular architectural style that allows systems to be built from a potentially large number of microservices, all of which can be developed independently and by their own teams. As a resulting benefit, development teams can choose the technologies optimal for their microservices, leading to a diversity of different programming languages, frameworks,…

  • Ensuring syntactic interoperability using consumer-driven contract testing [STVR Journal]

    Ensuring syntactic interoperability using consumer-driven contract testing [STVR Journal]

    Abstract Integrating services in service-based architectures is a major concern and challenge to their developers. A key problem is that today’s compilers cannot ensure syntactic interoperability of web APIs. Without further help, invalid calls surface only at runtime. Microservice-based architectures exacerbate this problem due to their use of polyglot software stacks and independent deployments. As…

  • Is AI killing open source?

    Is AI killing open source?

    tl;dr Nah, things keep changing, but if anything, AI only helps open source sharpen its profile as the way to go about collaboratively developing high-quality broadly-usable software. Those who were around twenty years ago may remember how folks were wondering whether the cloud was going to kill open source. How did this work out? It…