Timeline: May - June 2022
I worked with the UBC Systopia Lab, UBC’s Computer Systems research lab, during May - June 2022, where I had the opportunity to start a research project from scratch. My research subject was broadly about exploring the data privacy compliance of a serverless application deployed on a cloud environment. Specifically, I focused on how well the design and components of serverless application deployed on Google Cloud Platform protect the privacy of the data. As part of this research project, I worked on the following:
- Choosing a benchmark application that is sufficiently complex and contains personal data
- Setting up the application on Google Cloud Platform
- The Google Cloud services I worked with include App Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Firebase, Big Query, Cloud Storage, Cloud Build, Cloud Logging, Cloud Tracing
- Running a series of workloads on the application to trigger certain user requests
- Adding logging and distributed tracing to various components to investigate how data flows within the application
- Investigating logs, traces, and access management on Google Cloud Platform to find potential data access breaches
- Documenting the app architecture, deployment on GCP, my investigation and findings
