A Systematic Literature Review on Microservices

Vural, Hulya; Koyuncu, Murat; Guney, Sinem

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-62407-5_14

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“…Similarly, the results of our mapping study on architecting microservices [5] confirm that migration towards MSA is one of the most relevant research perspectives. Differently, two secondary studies of Alshuqayran et al [1] and Vural et al [26] do not directly address the migration towards MSA in their works. All the above-mentioned secondary studies differ from our work in two ways: we directly involve industrial practitioners; and we specifically focus on the migration activities and challenges for the adoption of MSA.…”

Section: Threats To Validitymentioning

confidence: 92%

Migrating Towards Microservice Architectures: An Industrial Survey

Francesco

Lago

Malavolta

2018

2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA)

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Microservices are gaining tremendous traction in industry and a growing scientific interest in academia. More and more companies are adopting this architectural style for modernizing their products and taking advantage of its promised benefits (e.g., agility, scalability). Unfortunately, the process of moving towards a microservice-based architecture is anything but easy, as there are plenty of challenges to address from both technical and organizational perspectives. In this paper we report about an empirical study on migration practices towards the adoption of microservices in industry. Specifically, we designed and conducted a survey targeting practitioners involved in the process of migrating their applications and we collected information (by means of interviews and questionnaires) on (i) the performed activities, and (ii) the challenges faced during the migration. Our findings benefit both (i) researchers by highlighting future directions for industryrelevant problems and (ii) practitioners by providing a reference framework for their (future) migrations towards microservices.

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Section: Threats To Validitymentioning

confidence: 92%

Migrating Towards Microservice Architectures: An Industrial Survey

Francesco

Lago

Malavolta

2018

2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA)

130

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“…Studies also state that industrial state-of-practice has already reached some degree of maturity, while academia is still at an early stage [7], [8]. According to Vural et al, this equally applies to empirical studies that provide insights into the current state-of-practice [9]. Moreover, Jamshidi et al note that recently published papers have had "little if any impact on microservice practice" [10], which according to the authors might be caused by limited access to industry-scale applications.…”

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confidence: 99%

Microservices Migration in Industry: Intentions, Strategies, and Challenges

Fritzsch

Bogner

Wagner

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)

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To remain competitive in a fast changing environment, many companies started to migrate their legacy applications towards a Microservices architecture. Such extensive migration processes require careful planning and consideration of implications and challenges likewise. In this regard, handson experiences from industry practice are still rare. To fill this gap in scientific literature, we contribute a qualitative study on intentions, strategies, and challenges in the context of migrations to Microservices. We investigated the migration process of 14 systems across different domains and sizes by conducting 16 indepth interviews with software professionals from 10 companies. We present a separate description of each case and summarize the most important findings. As primary migration drivers, maintainability and scalability were identified. Due to the high complexity of their legacy systems, most companies preferred a rewrite using current technologies over splitting up existing code bases. This was often caused by the absence of a suitable decomposition approach. As such, finding the right service cut was a major technical challenge, next to building the necessary expertise with new technologies. Organizational challenges were especially related to large, traditional companies that simultaneously established agile processes. Initiating a mindset change and ensuring smooth collaboration between teams were crucial for them. Future research on the evolution of software systems will in particular profit from the individual cases presented.

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“…However, the field is still young and holds much potential for future research. Due to these attributes, microservices have been the subject of several systematic analyses, which include systematic reviews and systematic studies . A comparison of the existing secondary studies in the literature is provided in Table .…”

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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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A Systematic Literature Review on Microservices

Cited by 59 publications

References 40 publications

Migrating Towards Microservice Architectures: An Industrial Survey

Migrating Towards Microservice Architectures: An Industrial Survey

Microservices Migration in Industry: Intentions, Strategies, and Challenges

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

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