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Microservices emerged as a popular architectural style over the last decade. Although microservices are designed to be self-contained, they must communicate to realize business capabilities, creating dependencies among their data and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Rodrigo Laigner , Ana Carolina Almeida , Wesley K. G. Assunção , Yongluan Zhou

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

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 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

Microservices have become the dominant architectural paradigm for building scalable and modular cloud-native systems. However, achieving effective auto-scaling in such systems remains a non-trivial challenge, as it depends not only on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Majid Dashtbani , Ladan Tahvildari

Migrating from monolithic systems into microservice is a very complex task. Companies are commonly decomposing the monolithic system manually, analyzing dependencies of the monolith and then assessing different decomposition options. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Davide Taibi , Kari Systä

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

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 emerging development paradigm where software is obtained by composing autonomous entities, called (micro)services. However, microservice systems are currently developed using general-purpose programming languages that do…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Claudio Guidi , Ivan Lanese , Manuel Mazzara , Fabrizio Montesi

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

This study investigates the impact of software design model capabilities and data structure algorithm abilities on microservices architecture design within enterprises. Utilizing a qualitative methodology, the research involved in-depth…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Jun Cui

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

Microservice architecture has become a dominant architectural style in the service-oriented software industry. Poor practices in the design and development of microservices are called microservice bad smells. In microservice bad smells…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Weipan Yang , Yongchao Xing , Yiming Lyu , Zhihao Liang , Zhiying Tu

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

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 promise of increased agility, autonomy, scalability, and reusability has made the microservices architecture a \textit{de facto} standard for the development of large-scale and cloud-native commercial applications. Software patterns are…

While Microservices are a preferred choice for modern cloud-based applications, the migration and architectural refactoring of existing legacy systems is still a major challenge in industry. To address this, academia has proposed many…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Jonas Fritzsch , Filipe Correia , Justus Bogner , Stefan Wagner

Microservices architectures have become largely popular in the last years. However, we still lack empirical evidence about the use of microservices and the practices followed by practitioners. Thereupon, in this paper, we report the results…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Markos Viggiato , Ricardo Terra , Henrique Rocha , Marco Tulio Valente , Eduardo Figueiredo

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