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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

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Muhammad Waseem , Peng Liang , Aakash Ahmad , Mojtaba Shahin , Arif Ali Khan , Gastón Márquez

Microservices architectures have become largely popular in the last years. However, we still lack empirical evidence about the use of microservices and the practices followed by practitioners. Thereupon, in this paper, we report the results…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Markos Viggiato , Ricardo Terra , Henrique Rocha , Marco Tulio Valente , Eduardo Figueiredo

Microservices have gained wide recognition and acceptance in software industries as an emerging architectural style for autonomic, scalable, and more reliable computing. The transition to microservices has been highly motivated by the need…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Sara Hassan , Rami Bahsoon , Rick Kazman

Scalability and maintainability challenges in monolithic systems have led to the adoption of microservices, which divide systems into smaller, independent services. However, migrating existing monolithic systems to microservices is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Imen Trabelsi , Brahim Mahmoudi , Jean Baptiste Minani , Naouel Moha , Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

Microservices have become a popular architectural style for data-driven applications, given their ability to functionally decompose an application into small and autonomous services to achieve scalability, strong isolation, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Rodrigo Laigner , Yongluan Zhou , Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles , Yijian Liu , Marcos Kalinowski

Microservices expose their functionality via remote Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), e.g., based on HTTP or asynchronous messaging technology. To solve recurring problems in this design space, Microservice API Patterns (MAPs) have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Justus Bogner , Pawel Wójcik , Olaf Zimmermann

Migration to the cloud has been a popular topic in industry and academia in recent years. Despite many benefits that the cloud presents, such as high availability and scalability, most of the on-premise application architectures are not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Armin Balalaie , Abbas Heydarnoori , Pooyan Jamshidi

Microservice based systems underpin modern distributed computing environments but remain vulnerable to partial failures, cascading timeouts, and inconsistent recovery behavior. Although numerous resilience and recovery patterns have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Muzeeb Mohammad

Context. Re-architecting monolithic systems with Microservices-based architecture is a common trend. Various companies are migrating to Microservices for different reasons. However, making such an important decision like re-architecting an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Florian Auer , Valentina Lenarduzzi , Michael Felderer , Davide Taibi

It is well recognized that design patterns improve system development and maintenance in many aspects. While we commonly recognize these patterns in monolithic systems, many patterns emerged for cloud computing, specifically microservices.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Alexander Bakhtin , Abdullah Al Maruf , Tomas Cerny , Davide Taibi

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

Microservice architectures (MSA) are becoming trending alternatives to existing software development paradigms notably for developing complex and distributed applications. Microservices emerged as an architectural design pattern aiming to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Abdelhakim Hannousse , Salima Yahiouche

The microservices architectural style is widely favored for its scalability, reusability, and easy maintainability, prompting increased adoption by developers. However, transitioning from a monolithic to a microservices-based architecture…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Meryam chaieb , Mohamed Aymen Saied

Context: Microservices Architecture (MSA) has received significant attention in the software industry. However, little empirical evidence exists on design, monitoring, and testing of microservices systems. Objective: This research aims to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Muhammad Waseem , Peng Liang , Mojtaba Shahin , Amleto Di Salle , Gastón Márquez

Microservices are a popular architectural style adopted by the industry when it comes to deploying software that requires scalability, maintainability, and agile development. There is an increasing demand for improving the sustainability of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Xingwen Xiao

Designing software compatible with cloud-based Microservice Architectures (MSAs) is vital due to the performance, scalability, and availability limitations. As the complexity of a system increases, it is subject to deprecation, difficulties…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Thakshila Imiya Mohottige , Artem Polyvyanyy , Rajkumar Buyya , Colin Fidge , Alistair Barros

Microservices bring various benefits to software systems. They also bring decentralization and lose coupling across self-contained system parts. Since these systems likely evolve in a decentralized manner, they need to be monitored to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Abdullah Al Maruf , Alexander Bakhtin , Tomas Cerny , Davide Taibi

Software start-up failures are often explained with poor business model, market issues, insufficient funding, or simply a bad product idea. However, inadequacies in software product engineering are relatively little explored and could be a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Eriks Klotins , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Tony Gorschek

Background: Microservices migrations are challenging and expensive projects with many decisions that need to be made in a multitude of dimensions. Existing research tends to focus on technical issues and decisions (e.g., how to split…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Hamdy Michael Ayas , Philipp Leitner , Regina Hebig