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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

Microservices is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services, making it easy for developers to build and scale their applications. The microservices architecture approach differs from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Muhammad Ahsan , Sacheendra Talluri , Alexandru Iosup

Microservices based architectures are based on a set of modular, independent and fault-tolerant services. In recent years, the software engineering community presented studies investigating potential, recurrent, effective architectural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Mohammad Imranur , Rahman , Sebastiano Panichella , Davide Taibi

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

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

While Microservices promise several beneficial characteristics for sustainable long-term software evolution, little empirical research covers what concrete activities industry applies for the evolvability assurance of Microservices and how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Justus Bogner , Jonas Fritzsch , 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Context: Applying Microservices Architecture (MSA) in DevOps has received significant attention in recent years. However, there exists no comprehensive review of the state of research on this topic. Objective: This work aims to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Muhammad Waseem , Peng Liang , Mojtaba Shahin

The rapid technological advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) allows the blueprint of Smart Cities to become feasible by integrating heterogeneous cloud/fog/edge computing paradigms to collaboratively provide variant smart services in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Qian Qu , Ronghua Xu , Seyed Yahya Nikouei , Yu Chen

Microservices is an architectural style inspired by service-oriented computing that has recently started gaining popularity. Before presenting the current state-of-the-art in the field, this chapter reviews the history of software…

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

Microservices have become popular in the past few years, attracting the interest of both academia and industry. Despite of its benefits, this new architectural style still poses important challenges, such as resilience, performance and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Messias Filho , Eliaquim Pimentel , Wellington Pereira , Paulo Henrique M. Maia , Mariela I. Cortés

Context: Microservice-based systems have established themselves in the software industry. However, sustainability-related legislation and the growing costs of energy-hungry software increase the importance of energy efficiency for these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xingwen Xiao , Chushu Gao , Justus Bogner