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The microservice software architecture leverages the idea of splitting large monolithic applications into multiple smaller services that interact using lightweight communication schemes. While the microservice architecture has proven its…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Dāvis Kažemaks , Jérémie Decouchant

The microservices architectural style offers many advantages such as scalability, reusability and ease of maintainability. As such microservices has become a common architectural choice when developing new applications. Hence, to benefit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Khaled Sellami , Mohamed Aymen Saied , Ali Ouni

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

The idea behind microservices architecture is to develop a single large, complex application as a suite of small, cohesive, independent services. On the other way, monolithic systems get larger over the time, deviating from the intended…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Alessandra Levcovitz , Ricardo Terra , Marco Tulio Valente

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

The evolution of decentralized microservice-based systems is challenging. These challenges are classified into static and dynamic categories. Regarding the static perspective, documenting and visualizing the fluid application topology is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Amr S. Abdelfattah

The microservice architectural style has many advantages such as scalability, reusability, and easy maintainability. Microservices have therefore become a popular architectural choice when developing new applications. Reaping these benefits…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Meryam Chaieb , Mohamed Aymen Saied

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

The advent of microservices has led multiple companies to migrate their monolithic systems to this new architecture. When decomposing a monolith, a functionality previously implemented as a transaction may need to be implemented as a set of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Valentim Romão , Rafael Soares , Luís Rodrigues , Vasco Manquinho

Software errors and incidents are inevitable in web based applications. Scalability challenges, increasing demand, and ongoing code changes can contribute to such failures. As software architectures evolve rapidly, understanding how and why…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Doğaç Eldenk , H. Alperen Çetin

Monolithic software encapsulates all functional capabilities into a single deployable unit. But managing it becomes harder as the demand for new functionalities grow. Microservice architecture is seen as an alternate as it advocates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Alex Mathai , Sambaran Bandyopadhyay , Utkarsh Desai , Srikanth Tamilselvam

We propose Sliceable Monolith, a new methodology for developing microservice architectures and perform their integration testing by leveraging most of the simplicity of a monolith: a single codebase and a local execution environment that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Fabrizio Montesi , Marco Peressotti , Valentino Picotti

The adoption of microservice architecture has seen a considerable upswing in recent years, mainly driven by the need to modernize legacy systems and address their limitations. Legacy systems, typically designed as monolithic applications,…

Microservices Architecture (MSA) style is a promising design approach to develop software applications consisting of multiple small and independently deployable services. Over the past few years, researchers and practitioners have proposed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Muhammad Waseem , Peng Liang , Gastón Márquez , Mojtaba Shahin , Arif Ali Khan , Aakash Ahmad

Microservices Architecture (MSA) has become a de-facto standard for designing cloud-native enterprise applications due to its efficient infrastructure setup, service availability, elastic scalability, dependability, and better security.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Vikram Nitin , Shubhi Asthana , Baishakhi Ray , Rahul Krishna

Microservice architectures have gained popularity as one of the preferred architectural approaches to develop large-scale systems, replacing the monolith architecture approach. Similarly, strategic Domain-Driven Design (DDD) gained traction…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Miguel Levezinho , Stefan Kapferer , Olaf Zimmermann , António Rito Silva

Microservices are becoming the defacto design choice for software architecture. It involves partitioning the software components into finer modules such that the development can happen independently. It also provides natural benefits when…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Utkarsh Desai , Sambaran Bandyopadhyay , Srikanth Tamilselvam

Microservice architectures encourage the use of small, independently developed services; however, this can lead to increased architectural complexity. Accurate documentation is crucial, but is challenging to maintain due to the rapid,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Oscar Manglaras , Alex Farkas , Thomas Woolford , Christoph Treude , Markus Wagner

As Monolithic applications evolve, they become increasingly difficult to maintain and improve, leading to scaling and organizational issues. The Microservices architecture, known for its modularity, flexibility and scalability, offers a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Khaled Sellami , Mohamed Aymen Saied

The microservices architectural style has become the de facto standard for large-scale cloud applications, offering numerous benefits in scalability, maintainability, and deployment flexibility. Many organizations are pursuing the migration…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Matthéo Lecrivain , Hanifa Barry , Dalila Tamzalit , Houari Sahraoui