A Framework for Modelling Variable Microservices as Software Product Lines

Naily, Moh. Afifun; Setyautami, Maya Retno Ayu; Muschevici, Radu; Azurat, Ade

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74781-1_18

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“…The client requests are directed to the API gateway, the only component of the microservices systems that is publicly exposed. A routing layer handles the responsibility of forwarding requests from the API gateway to the appropriate microservice instance . The routing layer is usually provided as part of the infrastructure layer.…”

Section: Taxonomy Based On Different Aspects Of Msasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Straddling the crevasse: A review of microservice software architecture foundations and recent advancements

Joseph

Chandrasekaran

2019

Softw Pract Exp

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Microservice architecture style has been gaining wide impetus in the software engineering industry. Researchers and practitioners have adopted the microservices concepts into several application domains such as the internet of things, cloud computing, service computing, and healthcare. Applications developed in alignment with the microservices principles require an underlying platform with management capabilities to coordinate the different microservice units and ensure that the application functionalities are delivered to the user. A multitude of approaches has been proposed for the various tasks in microservices-based systems. However, since the field is relatively young, there is a need to organize the different research works. In this study, we present a comprehensive review of the research approaches directed toward microservice architectures and propose a multilevel taxonomy to categorize the existing research. The study also discusses the different distributed computing paradigms employing microservices and identifies the open research challenges in the domain.

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Section: Taxonomy Based On Different Aspects Of Msasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Straddling the crevasse: A review of microservice software architecture foundations and recent advancements

Joseph

Chandrasekaran

2019

Softw Pract Exp

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“…SPLE research also starts to consider the study in web engineering and microservices. Aziz et al [11] and Naily et al [12] use Abstract Behaviour Specification (ABS) [13] to build an SPLE-enabled web framework, a web framework that supports the SPLE process. ABS [13] is a modelling languages that support the SPLE process.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Aziz et al, and Naily et al, utilised the ABS language mechanism to create a web application by building a generator to generate a web application based on the model. The previous research from [11] and [12] use the Java backend of the ABS language, which generate a Java-based web framework. However, a specific programming language has its strength and weakness.…”

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“…ABS itself seems like it has dropped the support of Java backend based on the information in their documentation page 1 which does not include information about Java backend anymore. The toolchain required by both ABS Web Framework research [11,12] also used an old version of ABS, which need to update to comply with newer features of ABS. Some newer features of ABS, e.g.…”

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“…We also use microservices architecture with the structure defined by Fowler [8]. We also use ABS to create the framework, which makes it possible to use the already defined model from previous research [11,12]. In this research, we use the Erlang backend of the ABS language based on the fact the capabilities the Erlang backend has.…”

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Towards Erlang-based ABS Microservices Framework for Software Product Line Development

Novrialdi

Adianto

Rosyida

et al. 2022

Jurnal Ilmu Komputer dan Informasi

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The current widely used software system can be categorised as a large or very large decentralised control system with various requirements and continuous interchangeable elements. This characteristic leads to a need to control the variability to manage such systems. Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) is one of the approaches that can manage the variability by developing sets of products. However, there is a need for support tools for development with software product line engineering. One language that supports the SPLE process is Abstract Behavioral Specification (ABS). Some SPLE research has used ABS to create frameworks that support the SPLE process. ABS Microservices is one research that utilises ABS to create a web framework that supports the SPLE process. This framework uses ABS to generate Java-based applications. The research interest in the web application is driven by the fact that it is one of the software types widely used by organisations and serves as the primary support of their business. Microservices are highly interoperable, thus enabling researchers to integrate different technology from other research. However, there is a need for renewal to the ABS Microservices framework. There is a need for more variants of SPLE-enabled frameworks that use more programming language as a specific programming language has its strength and weakness. Deprecation of the Java backend of the ABS opens a new exploration of another web framework that uses other ABS backend languages. We present the ABS microservices web framework based on Erlang OTP. We choose Erlang because it promises more efficient resource usage and the Erlang backend is one of the ABS backends with the most available features. This research aims to create an entry point for ABS Microservices to support more language. This research shows that the Erlang variant of ABS Microservices has less resource usage than the Java variant. Hence, this promises more options to develop product lines using ABS Microservices.

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Microservice transition and its granularity problem: A systematic mapping study

Hassan¹,

Bahsoon²,

Kazman

2020

Softw Pract Exp

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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 for better alignment of technical design decisions with improving value potentials of architectures. Despite microservices' popularity, research still lacks disciplined understanding of transition and consensus on the principles and activities underlying that transition. In this paper, we report on a systematic mapping study that consolidates various views, approaches and activities that commonly assist in the transition to microservices. The study aims to provide a better understanding of the transition; it also contributes a working definition of the transition and technical activities underlying it. We term the transition and technical activities leading to microservice architectures as microservitization. We then shed light on a fundamental problem of microservitization: microservice granularity and reasoning about its adaptation as first-class entities. This study reviews state-of-the-art and-practice related to reasoning about microservice granularity; it reviews modeling approaches, aspects considered, guidelines and processes used to reason about microservice granularity. This study identifies opportunities for future research and development related to reasoning about microservice granularity.

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A Framework for Modelling Variable Microservices as Software Product Lines

Cited by 14 publications

References 10 publications

Straddling the crevasse: A review of microservice software architecture foundations and recent advancements

Straddling the crevasse: A review of microservice software architecture foundations and recent advancements

Towards Erlang-based ABS Microservices Framework for Software Product Line Development

Microservice transition and its granularity problem: A systematic mapping study

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