Assessing Architecture Conformance to Coupling-Related Patterns and Practices in Microservices

Evangelos Ntentos; Uwe Zdun; Konstantinos Plakidas; Sebastian Meixner; Sebastian Geiger

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58923-3_1

Assessing Architecture Conformance to Coupling-Related Patterns and Practices in Microservices

Evangelos Ntentos (Corresponding author), Uwe Zdun, Konstantinos Plakidas, Sebastian Meixner, Sebastian Geiger

Research Group Software Architecture

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Abstract

Microservices are the go-to architectural style for building applications that are polyglot, support high scalability, independent development and deployment, and are rapidly adaptable to changes. Among the core tenets for a successful microservice architecture is high independence of the individual microservices, i.e.$ loose coupling. A number of patterns and best practices are well-established in the literature, but most actual microservice-based systems do not, as a whole or in part, conform to them. Assessing this conformance manually is not realistically possible for large-scale systems. This study aims to provide the foundations for an automated approach for assessing conformance to coupling-related patterns and practices specific for microservice architectures. We propose a model-based assessment based on generic, technology-independent metrics, connected to typical design decisions encountered in microservice architectures. We demonstrate and assess the validity and appropriateness of these metrics by performing an assessment of the conformance of real-world systems to patterns through statistical methods.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Software Architecture
Subtitle of host publication	14th European Conference, ECSA 2020, L'Aquila, Italy, September 14–18, 2020, Proceedings
Editors	Anton Jansen, Ivano Malavolta, Henry Muccini, Ipek Ozkaya, Olaf Zimmermann
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	3-20
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-58923-3
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-58922-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58923-3_1
Publication status	Published - 8 Sept 2020
Event	European Conference on Software Architecture 2020 - L'Aquila (Virtual Conference), Italy Duration: 14 Sept 2020 → 18 Sept 2020 https://ecsa2020.disim.univaq.it/

Publication series

Series	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	12292
ISSN	0302-9743

Conference

Conference	European Conference on Software Architecture 2020
Abbreviated title	ECSA 2020
Country/Territory	Italy
Period	14/09/20 → 18/09/20
Internet address	https://ecsa2020.disim.univaq.it/

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

102022 Software development

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METRICS

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Ntentos, E., Zdun, U., Plakidas, K., Meixner, S., & Geiger, S. (2020). Assessing Architecture Conformance to Coupling-Related Patterns and Practices in Microservices. In A. Jansen, I. Malavolta, H. Muccini, I. Ozkaya, & O. Zimmermann (Eds.), Software Architecture: 14th European Conference, ECSA 2020, L'Aquila, Italy, September 14–18, 2020, Proceedings (pp. 3-20). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58923-3_1

Ntentos, Evangelos ; Zdun, Uwe ; Plakidas, Konstantinos et al. / Assessing Architecture Conformance to Coupling-Related Patterns and Practices in Microservices. Software Architecture: 14th European Conference, ECSA 2020, L'Aquila, Italy, September 14–18, 2020, Proceedings. editor / Anton Jansen ; Ivano Malavolta ; Henry Muccini ; Ipek Ozkaya ; Olaf Zimmermann. Cham : Springer, 2020. pp. 3-20 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 12292).

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Ntentos, E , Zdun, U, Plakidas, K, Meixner, S & Geiger, S 2020, Assessing Architecture Conformance to Coupling-Related Patterns and Practices in Microservices. in A Jansen, I Malavolta, H Muccini, I Ozkaya & O Zimmermann (eds), Software Architecture: 14th European Conference, ECSA 2020, L'Aquila, Italy, September 14–18, 2020, Proceedings. Springer, Cham, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12292, pp. 3-20, European Conference on Software Architecture 2020, Italy, 14/09/20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58923-3_1

Assessing Architecture Conformance to Coupling-Related Patterns and Practices in Microservices. / Ntentos, Evangelos (Corresponding author); Zdun, Uwe; Plakidas, Konstantinos et al.
Software Architecture: 14th European Conference, ECSA 2020, L'Aquila, Italy, September 14–18, 2020, Proceedings. ed. / Anton Jansen; Ivano Malavolta; Henry Muccini; Ipek Ozkaya; Olaf Zimmermann. Cham: Springer, 2020. p. 3-20 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 12292).

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Ntentos E , Zdun U, Plakidas K, Meixner S, Geiger S. Assessing Architecture Conformance to Coupling-Related Patterns and Practices in Microservices. In Jansen A, Malavolta I, Muccini H, Ozkaya I, Zimmermann O, editors, Software Architecture: 14th European Conference, ECSA 2020, L'Aquila, Italy, September 14–18, 2020, Proceedings. Cham: Springer. 2020. p. 3-20. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 12292). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58923-3_1

Assessing Architecture Conformance to Coupling-Related Patterns and Practices in Microservices

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