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Design principles, architectural smells and refactorings for microservices: A multivocal review

Software Engineering 2019-09-11 v2

Abstract

Potential benefits such as agile service delivery have led many companies to deliver their business capabilities through microservices. Bad smells are however always around the corner, as witnessed by the considerable body of literature discussing architectural smells that possibly violate the design principles of microservices. In this paper, we systematically review the white and grey literature on the topic, in order to identify the most recognised architectural smells for microservices and to discuss the architectural refactorings allowing to resolve them.

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@article{arxiv.1906.01553,
  title  = {Design principles, architectural smells and refactorings for microservices: A multivocal review},
  author = {Antonio Brogi and Davide Neri and Jacopo Soldani and Olaf Zimmermann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.01553},
  year   = {2019}
}

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SICS Software-Intensive Cyber-Physical Systems (2019)

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