Towards the understanding and evolution of monolithic applications as microservices

Escobar, Daniel; Cardenas, Diana D.; Amarillo, Rolando; Castro, Eddie; Garcés, Kelly; Parra, Carlos; Casallas, Rubby

doi:10.1109/clei.2016.7833410

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“…While migrating, several aspects such as the communication mode and technologies needs to be carefully chosen. Escobar et al proposed a model‐based approach to transform legacy applications to MSA . Jamshidi et al proposed a pattern‐based architecture that concerns the variability trends for the migration process .…”

Section: Migration To Microservices Architecturesmentioning

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: Migration To Microservices Architecturesmentioning

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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“…The paper S11 [25] describes a technical solution to modernize monolithic applications into microservices using software visualization to support the comprehension of evolution process. This conceptual solution can provide a modernization process that uses a legacy system and generates a set of visual diagrams that help architects and developers to understand the system, also suggesting ways of code partitions for transforming into micro-services.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This conceptual solution can provide a modernization process that uses a legacy system and generates a set of visual diagrams that help architects and developers to understand the system, also suggesting ways of code partitions for transforming into micro-services. The paper has focus only in an understanding stage of modernization, not in transformation stage [25]. The authors analyzed a large Java EE application to validate this solution.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Systematic Mapping on Visual Solutions to Support the Comprehension of Software Architecture Evolution

Filho¹,

Carneiro

Maciel

2019

International Conferences on Distributed Multimedia Systems

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Context: Software visualization has the potential to support specialized stakeholders to understand the software architecture (SA) evolution. To the best of our knowledge, there is no guideline based on which visual solutions should be applied to support the SA evolution comprehension and how to use them. Goal: Analyze the use of visual solutions for the purpose of comprehension with respect to software architecture evolution from the point of view of software architects and developers in the context of both academia and industry. Method: We conducted a Systematic Mapping Study to achieve the stated goal. Results: The study identified 92 papers published from January 2000 to December 2018 as a result of the search strings execution. We selected 12 primary studies and identified a gap in terms of a taxonomy to assist specialists in the development or classification of solutions to support the comprehension of software architecture evolution using visual resources. Conclusion: We observed that despite the relevance of the use of visual solutions to support the comprehension of software architecture evolution, only 12 studies have reported these initiatives, suggesting that there is still room for the use of different visual metaphors to represent its components, relationships and evolution throughout the releases.

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“…Each criterion is formatted with a template very similar to that used in agile practices, containing information such as identification and name; description; specification artifacts in the system; literature references, category, and characteristics. Escobar et al [6] propose a process that helps the developer to decompose a monolithic application in microservices, through diagrams resulting from data layer analysis belonging to each Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) through clustering. The process is divided into three steps: the first layer called data injection, which deals with the processing of application source code, resulting in a KDM metamodel that is used as input for the next step; For the second stage, the classes, interfaces, and methods present in the metamodel generated by the first stage are identified, which are classified into two possible clusters that are EJB cluster and microservice cluster.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Regarding the main contributions, only the work of Gysel [13] proposed a tool for the decomposition of monolithic systems in microservices. The works of Levcovitz [16], Knoche [15] and Escobar [6] contribute to the creation of a process to perform the decomposition. The work of Rocha [21] proposes the use of an algorithm to perform the decomposition.…”

Section: Comparative Analysis Of the Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mind Overflow: A Process Proposal for Decomposing Monolithic Applications in Microservices

Pereira¹,

Farias²

2020

IJCA

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Constant changes made by different developer profiles turn legacy applications into monolithic ones. Although it is a known issue, little has been done to mitigate it. This paper proposes Mind Overflow, a process to guide the decomposition of a monolithic application to a microservice architecture. With Mind Overflow, researchers and developers benefit from the use of consolidated design patterns, architectures, and technologies through a comprehensive decomposition workflow. The case study showed promising results, indicating that Mind Overflow is feasible to break down monolithic to a microservice-based architecture, including reducing cyclomatic complexity and producing highly cohesive microservices.

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Towards the understanding and evolution of monolithic applications as microservices

Cited by 75 publications

References 13 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

A Systematic Mapping on Visual Solutions to Support the Comprehension of Software Architecture Evolution

Mind Overflow: A Process Proposal for Decomposing Monolithic Applications in Microservices

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