Patterns Related to Microservice Architecture: a Multivocal Literature Review
José Ali VALDIVIA,
Alonso LORA-GONZALEZ,
Xavier LIMÓN,
Karen CORTES-VERDIN,
Jorge Octavio OCHARÁN-HERNÁNDEZ https://doi.org/10.15514/ISPRAS-2021-33(1)-6
Abstract
A Microservice Architecture enables the development of distributed systems using a set of highly cohesive, independent, and collaborative services, ready for current cloud computing demands. Each microservice can be implemented in different technologies, sharing common communication channels, which results in heterogeneous distributed systems that exhibit high scalability, maintainability, performance, and interoperability. Currently, there are many options to build microservices; some of them led by patterns that establish common structures to solve recurrent problems. Nevertheless, as microservices are an emerging trend, the relationship between quality attributes, metrics, and patterns is not clearly defined, which is a concern from a software engineering point of view, since such understanding is fundamental to correctly design systems using this architecture. This paper aims to extend the knowledge on the design of microservices-based systems by presenting a multivocal systematic literature review for microservices related patterns, tying them together with quality attributes and metrics, as can be found in academic and industry research.
About the Authors
José Ali VALDIVIA
Universidad Veracruzana
Mexico
Bachelor of Software Engineering
Mexico
Bachelor of Software Engineering
Alonso LORA-GONZALEZ
Universidad Veracruzana
Mexico
Bachelor degree in Software Engineering
Mexico
Bachelor degree in Software Engineering
Xavier LIMÓN
Universidad Veracruzana
Mexico
Doctor of Artificial Intelligence, Associate Professor of the Statistics and Informatics Faculty
Mexico
Doctor of Artificial Intelligence, Associate Professor of the Statistics and Informatics Faculty
Karen CORTES-VERDIN
Universidad Veracruzana
Mexico
Doctor in Computing Sciences, Professor at the School of Statistics and Informatics
Mexico
Doctor in Computing Sciences, Professor at the School of Statistics and Informatics
Jorge Octavio OCHARÁN-HERNÁNDEZ
Universidad Veracruzana
Mexico
Doctor in Computing Sciences, Professor at the School of Statistics and Informatics
Mexico
Doctor in Computing Sciences, Professor at the School of Statistics and Informatics
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VALDIVIA J., LORA-GONZALEZ A., LIMÓN X., CORTES-VERDIN K., OCHARÁN-HERNÁNDEZ J. Patterns Related to Microservice Architecture: a Multivocal Literature Review. Proceedings of the Institute for System Programming of the RAS (Proceedings of ISP RAS). 2021;33(1):81-96. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.15514/ISPRAS-2021-33(1)-6
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