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Microservices: How To Make Your Application Scale

Software Engineering 2017-02-24 v1

Abstract

The microservice architecture is a style inspired by service-oriented computing that has recently started gaining popularity and that promises to change the way in which software is perceived, conceived and designed. In this paper, we describe the main features of microservices and highlight how these features improve scalability.

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@article{arxiv.1702.07149,
  title  = {Microservices: How To Make Your Application Scale},
  author = {Nicola Dragoni and Ivan Lanese and Stephan Thordal Larsen and Manuel Mazzara and Ruslan Mustafin and Larisa Safina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.07149},
  year   = {2017}
}
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