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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

Cloud-native and microservice architectures have taken over the development world by storm. While being incredibly scalable and resilient, microservice architectures also come at the cost of increased overhead to build and maintain.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jacoby Johnson , Subash Kharel , Alan Mannamplackal , Amr S. Abdelfattah , Tomas Cerny

Microservice architectures and design patterns enhance the development of large-scale applications by promoting flexibility. Industrial practitioners perceive the importance of applying architectural patterns but they struggle to quantify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Willem Meijer , Catia Trubiani , Aldeida Aleti

Microservice architecture has transformed the way developers are building and deploying applications in the nowadays cloud computing centers. This new approach provides increased scalability, flexibility, manageability, and performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Hamzeh Khazaei , Nima Mahmoudi , Cornel Barna , Marin Litoiu

With microservices continuously being popular in the software architecture domain, more practitioners and researchers have begun to pay attention to the degradation issue that diminishes its sustainability. One of the key factors that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Xiaozhou Li , Noman Ahmad , Tomas Cerny , Andrea Janes , Valentina Lenarduzzi , Davide Taibi

Connecting vehicles to cloud platforms has enabled innovative business scenarios while raising new quality concerns, such as reliability and scalability, which must be addressed by research. Cloud-native architectures based on microservices…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Ahmad Banijamali , Pooyan Jamshidi , Pasi Kuvaja , Markku Oivo

Observability helps ensure the reliability and maintainability of cloud-native applications. As software architectures become increasingly distributed and subject to change, it becomes a greater challenge to diagnose system issues…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Carlos Albuquerque , Filipe F. Correia

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

Context: Several companies are migrating their information systems into the Cloud. Microservices and DevOps are two of the most common adopted technologies. However, there is still a lack of understanding how to adopt a microservice-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Davide Taibi , Valentina Lenarduzzi , Claus Pahl

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

Sequence-based specification and usage-driven statistical testing are designed for rigorous and cost-effective software development, offering a semi-formal approach to assessing the behavior of complex systems and interactions between…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Seth Wolfgang , Lan Lin , Fengguang Song

Modern software architectures are characterized by their cloud-native, modular, and microservice-based designs. While these systems are known for their efficiency, they also face complex challenges in service optimization, especially in…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Hai Dinh-Tuan , Franz Florian Six

Microservice system solutions are driving digital transformation; however, fundamental tools and system perspectives are missing to better observe, understand, and manage these systems, their properties, and their dependencies.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Tomas Cerny , Amr S. Abdelfattah , Vincent Bushong , Abdullah Al Maruf , Davide Taibi

Testing microservice systems involves a large amount of planning and problem-solving. The difficulty of testing microservice systems increases as the size and structure of such systems become more complex. To help the microservice community…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Sheldon Smith , Ethan Robinson , Timmy Frederiksen , Trae Stevens , Tomas Cerny , Miroslav Bures , Davide Taibi

This paper presents a formal approach to modelling and analysis of data and control flow dependencies between services within remotely deployed distributed systems of services. Our work aims at elaborating for a concrete system, which parts…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-12-12 Maria Spichkova , Heinrich Schmidt

AI-based monitoring has become crucial for cloud-based services due to its scale. A common approach to AI-based monitoring is to detect causal relationships among service components and build a causal graph. Availability of domain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Sarthak Chakraborty , Shaddy Garg , Shubham Agarwal , Ayush Chauhan , Shiv Kumar Saini

Microservice-based cloud applications face changing workloads, evolving request paths, variable network conditions, interference, and failures. These dynamics couple autoscaling, placement, routing, isolation, and remediation. The survey…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ming Chen , Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam , Maria Rodriguez Read , Rajkumar Buyya

Performance analysis of microservices can be a challenging task, as a typical request to these systems involves multiple Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) spanning across independent services and machines. Practitioners primarily rely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Jessica Leone , Luca Traini

The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to connect everyday physical objects to the internet. These objects will produce a significant amount of data. The traditional cloud computing architecture aims to process data in the cloud. As a result, a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Badraddin Alturki , Stephan Reiff-Marganiec , Charith Perera , Suparna De

Microservices are used to build complex applications composed of small, independent and highly decoupled processes. Recently, microservices are often mentioned in one breath with container technologies like Docker. That is why operating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Nane Kratzke