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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…

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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…

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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

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

One of the most challenging problems in the migration of a monolith to a microservices architecture is the identification of the microservices boundaries. Several approaches have been recently proposed for the automatic identification of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Bernardo Andrade , Samuel Santos , António Rito Silva

As organizations increasingly transition from monolithic systems to microservices, they aim to achieve higher availability, automatic scaling, simplified infrastructure management, enhanced collaboration, and streamlined deployments.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Rita Peixoto , Filipe F. Correia , Thatiane Rosa , Eduardo Guerra , Alfredo Goldman

Microservices architecture has started a new trend for application development for a number of reasons: (1) to reduce complexity by using tiny services; (2) to scale, remove and deploy parts of the system easily; (3) to improve flexibility…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Marcelo Amaral , Jordà Polo , David Carrera , Iqbal Mohomed , Merve Unuvar , Malgorzata Steinder

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

Background. The migration from monolithic systems to microservices involves deep refactoring of the systems. Therefore, the migration usually has a big economic impact and companies tend to postpone several activities during this process,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Valentina Lenarduzzi , Francesco Lomio , Nyyti Saarimäki , Davide Taibi

The microservices paradigm aims at changing the way in which software is perceived, conceived and designed. One of the foundational characteristics of this new promising paradigm, compared for instance to monolithic architectures, is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Nicola Dragoni , Schahram Dustdar , Stephan T. Larsen , Manuel Mazzara

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

Proposing and implementing software systems, especially web applications for e-commerce using the traditional monolithic approach has been the norm, however, as new user requirements force organisations and developers to add more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Sunday David Ubur

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…

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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 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

Improving agility and maintainability are common drivers for companies to adopt a microservice architecture for their existing software systems. However, the existing software often relies heavily on the fact that it is executed within a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Holger Knoche , Wilhelm Hasselbring

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

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

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