Pith Number

pith:4DOFCG5A

pith:2021:4DOFCG5AXEPX6UDNJHWWBW3UYI

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Facing the Giant: a Grounded Theory Study of Decision-Making in Microservices Migrations

Hamdy Michael Ayas, Philipp Leitner, Regina Hebig

arxiv:2104.00390 v2 · 2021-04-01 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4DOFCG5AXEPX6UDNJHWWBW3UYI}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:56:57.721410Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e0dc511ba0b91f7f506d49ed60db74c210b442e848ceb0f4cd2bf9dae6dfe6b9

Aliases

arxiv: 2104.00390 · arxiv_version: 2104.00390v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2104.00390 · pith_short_12: 4DOFCG5AXEPX · pith_short_16: 4DOFCG5AXEPX6UDN · pith_short_8: 4DOFCG5A

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4DOFCG5AXEPX6UDNJHWWBW3UYI \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: e0dc511ba0b91f7f506d49ed60db74c210b442e848ceb0f4cd2bf9dae6dfe6b9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d8f58d23c9e90aa83f2116cf2e90085c82309e3518d341183be1b3444f198403",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2021-04-01T10:51:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "259c3874fb64151101a479f302af90d5971e1be05de9a0dc457917a2ec50d0a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2104.00390",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}