Microservices: The Journey So Far and Challenges Ahead

Microservices are an architectural approach emerging out of service-oriented architecture, emphasizing self-management and lightweightness as the means to improve software agility, scalability, and autonomy. This article examines microservice evolution from the technological and architectural perspe...

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Published inIEEE software Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 24 - 35
Main Authors Jamshidi, Pooyan, Pahl, Claus, Mendonca, Nabor C., Lewis, James, Tilkov, Stefan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.05.2018
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
architectural antipatterns
Autonomy
DDD
domain-driven design
legacy systems
MDD
microservices
model-driven development
Product development
Service computing
Service oriented architecture
SOA
Software development
Software engineering
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Summary:Microservices are an architectural approach emerging out of service-oriented architecture, emphasizing self-management and lightweightness as the means to improve software agility, scalability, and autonomy. This article examines microservice evolution from the technological and architectural perspectives and discusses key challenges facing future microservice developments.
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ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2018.2141039