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Researchers and practitioners have recently proposed many Microservices Architecture (MSA) patterns and strategies covering various aspects of microservices system life cycle, such as service design and security. However, selecting and…

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Machine learning is now a central part of how modern systems are built and used, powering everything from personalized recommendations to large-scale business analytics. As its role grows, organizations are facing new challenges in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sowjanya Karanam , Jayanth Bhargav

Microservice architectures have become a popular approach for designing scalable distributed applications. Despite their extensive use in industrial settings for over a decade, there is limited understanding of the data management…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Rodrigo Laigner , Zhexiang Zhang , Yijian Liu , Leonardo Freitas Gomes , Yongluan Zhou

The microservice architectural style has gained much attention from both academia and industry recently as a novel way to design, develop, and deploy cloud-native applications. This concept encourages the decomposition of a monolith into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Hai Dinh-Tuan , Maria Mora-Martinez , Felix Beierle , Sandro Rodriguez Garzon

Many small to large organizations have adopted the Microservices Architecture (MSA) style to develop and deliver their core businesses. Despite the popularity of MSA in the software industry, there is a limited evidence-based and thorough…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Muhammad Waseem , Peng Liang , Aakash Ahmad , Arif Ali Khan , Mojtaba Shahin , Pekka Abrahamsson , Ali Rezaei Nasab , Tommi Mikkonen

To remain competitive in a fast changing environment, many companies started to migrate their legacy applications towards a Microservices architecture. Such extensive migration processes require careful planning and consideration of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jonas Fritzsch , Justus Bogner , Stefan Wagner , Alfred Zimmermann

The study assesses the impact of cloud-based microservices architectures on application performance. Several aspects of performance evaluation are discussed, including response time, throughput, scalability, and reliability. This article…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Ganesh Chowdary Desina

Microservices - combined with secure containers - facilitate new ways to build critical applications. These applications will benefit from many tools and services built for less critical software. The more stringent requirements of critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Christof Fetzer

Security has become paramount in modern software services as more and more security breaches emerge, impacting final users and organizations alike. Trends like the Microservice Architecture bring new security challenges related to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Lenin Leines-Vite , Juan Carlos Pérez-Arriaga , Xavier Limón

The technological advancements of recent years have steadily increased the complexity of vehicle-internal software systems, and the ongoing development towards autonomous driving will further aggravate this situation. This is leading to a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Jannik Lotz , Andreas Vogelsang , Ola Benderius , Christian Berger

Despite the numerous benefits of microservices systems, security has been a critical issue in such systems. Several factors explain this difficulty, including a knowledge gap among microservices practitioners on properly securing a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Ali Rezaei Nasab , Mojtaba Shahin , Seyed Ali Hoseyni Raviz , Peng Liang , Amir Mashmool , Valentina Lenarduzzi

This early work aims to allow organizations to diagnose their capacity to properly adopt microservices through initial milestones of a Microservice Maturity Model (MiMMo). The objective is to prepare the way towards a general framework to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jean-Philippe Gouigoux , Dalila Tamzalit , Joost Noppen

Microservice-based systems are often complex to understand, especially when their sizes grow. Abstracted views help practitioners with the system understanding from a certain perspective. Recent advancement in interactive data visualization…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Amr S. Abdelfattah , Tomas Cerny , Davide Taibi , Sira Vegas

Microservices architecture has started a new trend for application development for a number of reasons: (1) to reduce complexity by using tiny services; (2) to scale, remove and deploy parts of the system easily; (3) to improve flexibility…

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Security issues in processor architectures remain really critical since users and devices continue to share computing as well as networking resources. So, preserving data privacy in such an environment is really a critical concern. We know…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Hemanth Gopal , Guanqun Song , Ting Zhu

Intelligence services are playing an increasingly important role in the operation of our society. Exploring the evolution mechanism, boundaries and challenges of service ecosystem is essential to our ability to realize smart society, reap…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Xiao Xue , ZhiYong Feng , ShiZhan Chen , ZhangBing Zhou , ChengZhi Qin , Bing Li , ZhongJie Wang , Bin Hu , HongYue Wu , ShuFang Wang , Lu Zhang

Microservices emerged as a popular architectural style over the last decade. Although microservices are designed to be self-contained, they must communicate to realize business capabilities, creating dependencies among their data and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Rodrigo Laigner , Ana Carolina Almeida , Wesley K. G. Assunção , Yongluan Zhou

Microservice applications are created as loosely coupled application components and they leverage cloud elasticity to reduce costs and increase development speed. However, microservice applications exhibit complex interactions among…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Minxian Xu , Junhan Liao , Linfeng Wen , Huaming Wu , Kejiang Ye , Rajkumar Buyya , Chengzhong Xu

The aim of this paper to provide the solution microservices architecture as a popular alternative to monolithic architecture. It discusses the advantages of microservices and the challenges that organizations face when transitioning from a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Momil Seedat , Qaisar Abbas , Nadeem Ahmad

Microservice architectures are a popular choice for deploying large-scale data-intensive applications. This architectural style allows microservice practitioners to achieve requirements related to loose coupling, fault contention, workload…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Rodrigo Laigner , Yongluan Zhou