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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

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

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…

Microservice architecture refers to the use of numerous small-scale and independently deployed services, instead of encapsulating all functions into one monolith. It has been a challenge in software engineering to decompose a monolithic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yuyang Wei , Yijun Yu , Minxue Pan , Tian Zhang

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

In recent years, microservice architecture has become a popular architectural style in software engineering, with its natural support for DevOps and continuous delivery, as well as its scalability and extensibility, which drive industry…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Zhi Li , Yitao Bo , Hongbin Xiao

The transition from monolithic to microservices architecture revolutionized software development by improving scalability and maintainability. This paradigm shift is now becoming relevant for complex multi-agent systems (MAS). This review…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Muskaan Goyal , Pranav Bhasin

Microservices Architecture (MSA) has become a de-facto standard for designing cloud-native enterprise applications due to its efficient infrastructure setup, service availability, elastic scalability, dependability, and better security.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Vikram Nitin , Shubhi Asthana , Baishakhi Ray , Rahul Krishna

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

Microservices are becoming the defacto design choice for software architecture. It involves partitioning the software components into finer modules such that the development can happen independently. It also provides natural benefits when…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Utkarsh Desai , Sambaran Bandyopadhyay , Srikanth Tamilselvam

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

A number of approaches have been proposed to identify service boundaries when decomposing a monolith to microservices. However, only a few use systematic methods and have been demonstrated with replicable empirical studies. We describe a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Tiago Matias , Filipe F. Correia , Jonas Fritzsch , Justus Bogner , Hugo S. Ferreira , André Restivo

The modern datacenter's computing capabilities have far outstripped the applications running within and have become a hidden cost of doing business due to how software is architected and deployed. Resources are over-allocated to monolithic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Aos Mulahuwaish , Shane Korbel , Basheer Qolomany

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

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

Recently the trend of companies switching from microservice back to monolith has increased, leading to intense debate in the industry. We conduct a multivocal literature review, to investigate reasons for the phenomenon and key aspects to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Ruoyu Su , Xiaozhou Li , Davide Taibi

Recent research has proposed different approaches on the automated identification of candidate microservices on monolith systems, which vary on the monolith representation, similarity criteria, and quality metrics used. On the other hand,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-23 João Lourenço , António Rito Silva

Monolithic applications are being decomposed to a microservices architecture, aiming to improve maintainability, performance and modularization. Although such decompositions have now been widely carried out in the industry, little is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Tulio Ricardo Hoppen Barzotto , Kleinner Farias

Microservice and serverless computing systems open up massive versatility and opportunity to distributed and datacenter-scale computing. In the meantime, the deployments of modern datacenter resources are moving to disaggregated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Xiaoyi Lu , Arjun Kashyap

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