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Cloud-native Applications are 'distributed, elastic and horizontal-scalable systems composed of (micro)services which isolate states in a minimum of stateful components'. Hence, an important property is to ensure a low coupling and a high…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Sebastiano Panichella , Mohammad Imranur Rahman , Davide Taibi

Detecting failures and identifying their root causes promptly and accurately is crucial for ensuring the availability of microservice systems. A typical failure troubleshooting pipeline for microservices consists of two phases: anomaly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Luan Pham , Huong Ha , Hongyu Zhang

In this paper, we present a novel marriage of static and dynamic analysis. Given a large code base with many functions and a mature test suite, we propose using static analysis to find functions 1) with assertions or other evident…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Mohammad Amin Alipour , Alex Groce , Chaoqiang Zhang , Anahita Sanadaji , Gokul Caushik

Widely adopted for their scalability and flexibility, modern microservice systems present unique failure diagnosis challenges due to their independent deployment and dynamic interactions. This complexity can lead to cascading failures that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Shenglin Zhang , Sibo Xia , Wenzhao Fan , Binpeng Shi , Xiao Xiong , Zhenyu Zhong , Minghua Ma , Yongqian Sun , Dan Pei

Although microservices have physically isolated modules, they have failed to prevent the propagation and diffusion of dependencies. To trace the root cause of the inter-module coupling, this paper, starting from the impact assessment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Qing Wang , Yong Zhang

Microservice architectures provide an intuitive promise of high maintainability and evolvability due to loose coupling. However, these quality attributes are notably vulnerable to technical debt (TD). Few studies address TD in microservice…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Klara Borowa , Andrzej Ratkowski , Roberto Verdecchia

Microservice systems are becoming increasingly adopted due to their scalability, decentralized development, and support for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). However, this decentralized development by separate teams and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Connor Wojtak , Darek Gajewski , Tomas Cerny

In recent decades, it has become a significant tendency for industrial manufacturers to adopt decentralization as a new manufacturing paradigm. This enables more efficient operations and facilitates the shift from mass to customized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Hai Dinh-Tuan , Felix Beierle , Sandro Rodriguez Garzon

The modern datacenter's computing capabilities have far outstripped the applications running within and have become a hidden cost of doing business due to how software is architected and deployed. Resources are over-allocated to monolithic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Aos Mulahuwaish , Shane Korbel , Basheer Qolomany

Microservice architecture is a trending topic in software design architecture and many enterprises adopted microservice design due its benefits and the rapid and wide deployment of cloud computing and as a result, many enterprises…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Hatem Hammad , Thaer Sahmoud , Abed Al Rahman Abu Ghazala

Cloud-native systems represent a significant leap in constructing scalable, large systems, employing microservice architecture as a key element in developing distributed systems through self-contained components. However, the decentralized…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Amr S. Abdelfattah

Static source code analysis is a powerful tool for finding and fixing bugs when deployed properly; it is, however, all too easy to deploy it in a way that looks good superficially, but which misses important defects, shows many false…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Flash Sheridan

Microservices are highly modular and scalable Service Oriented Architectures. They underpin automated deployment practices like Continuous Deployment and Autoscaling. In this paper, we formalize these practices and show that automated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Mario Bravetti , Saverio Giallorenzo , Jacopo Mauro , Iacopo Talevi , Gianluigi Zavattaro

With the maturity of web services, containers, and cloud computing technologies, large services in traditional systems (e.g. the computation services of machine learning and artificial intelligence) are gradually being broken down into many…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Abel C. H. Chen

In the last few years, the cloudification of applications requires new concepts and techniques to fully reap the benefits of the new computing paradigm. Among them, the microservices architectural style, which is inspired by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Hai Dinh-Tuan , Katerina Katsarou , Patrick Herbke

Partitioning large machine learning models across distributed accelerator systems is a complex process, requiring a series of interdependent decisions that are further complicated by internal sharding ambiguities. Consequently, existing…

Microservices architectures have become the foundation for developing scalable and modern software systems, but they also bring significant challenges in managing heterogeneous and distributed data. The pragmatic solution is polyglot…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Festim Halili , Anila Nuhiji , Diellza Mustafai Veliu

In a microservices-based system, reliability and availability are key components to guarantee the best-in-class experience for the consumers. One of the key advantages of microservices architecture is the ability to independently deploy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Matteo Collina , Luca Maraschi , Tommaso Pirini 1. Platformatic Inc

Microservices become a fast growing and popular architectural style based on service-oriented development. One of the major advantages using component-based approaches is to support reuse. In this paper, we present a study of microservices…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Reza M. Parizi

The microservice software architecture is more scalable and efficient than its monolithic predecessor. Despite its increasing adoption, microservices might expose security concerns and issues that are distinct from those associated with…