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Software modernisation through the migration from monolithic architectures to microservices has become increasingly critical, yet identifying effective service boundaries remains a complex and unresolved challenge. Although numerous…

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

Several companies are re-architecting their monolithic information systems with microservices. However, many companies migrated without experience on microservices, mainly learning how to migrate from books or from practitioners' blogs.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Davide Taibi , Valentina Lenarduzzi , Claus Pahl

We propose Sliceable Monolith, a new methodology for developing microservice architectures and perform their integration testing by leveraging most of the simplicity of a monolith: a single codebase and a local execution environment that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Fabrizio Montesi , Marco Peressotti , Valentino Picotti

Enterprises in their journey to the cloud, want to decompose their monolith applications into microservices to maximize cloud benefits. Current research focuses a lot on how to partition the monolith into smaller clusters that perform well…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Vini Kanvar , Ridhi Jain , Srikanth Tamilselvam

Building a scalable and real-time recommendation system is vital for many businesses driven by time-sensitive customer feedback, such as short-videos ranking or online ads. Despite the ubiquitous adoption of production-scale deep learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Zhuoran Liu , Leqi Zou , Xuan Zou , Caihua Wang , Biao Zhang , Da Tang , Bolin Zhu , Yijie Zhu , Peng Wu , Ke Wang , Youlong Cheng

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

The microservice architectural style has gained much attention from both academia and industry recently as a novel way to design, develop, and deploy cloud-native applications. This concept encourages the decomposition of a monolith into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Hai Dinh-Tuan , Maria Mora-Martinez , Felix Beierle , Sandro Rodriguez Garzon

In this paper we offer an overview on the topic of Microservices Science and Engineering (MSE) and we provide a collection of bibliographic references and links relevant to understand an emerging field. We try to clarify some…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Manuel Mazzara , Kevin Khanda , Ruslan Mustafin , Victor Rivera , Larisa Safina , Alberto Sillitti

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

Monolithic applications used to be considered the standard for software development. However, due to the rapid evolution of technology and the increasing demand for scalability and flexibility, these applications have become increasingly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-13 David Ahmad Abboud , Damien Jacob

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

Cloud services have recently started undergoing a major shift from monolithic applications, to graphs of hundreds of loosely-coupled microservices. Microservices fundamentally change a lot of assumptions current cloud systems are designed…

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

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Khaled Sellami , Mohamed Aymen Saied , Ali Ouni

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Khaled Sellami , Mohamed Aymen Saied

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

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…

Virtualization is gaining attraction in the industry as it promises a flexible way to integrate, manage, and re-use heterogeneous software components with mixed-criticality levels, on a shared hardware platform, while obtaining isolation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Marcello Cinque , Domenico Cotroneo , Luigi De Simone , Stefano Rosiello

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