Paper Info
Title
Decision Models for Microservices: Design Areas, Stakeholders, Use Cases, and Requirements.
Abstract
Introducing a microservice architecture is a complex task, requiring many design decisions regarding system architecture, organizational structure, and system infrastructure. Decision models have been successfully used in other domains for design space exploration, decision making and decision documentation. In this paper, we investigate the use of decision models for microservice architecture. As a first step, we identified areas of microservice design and created decision models for some of the identified areas. We then used the created models as part of a technical action research (TAR) process with partner companies to identify important stakeholders and use cases for decision models in this context, as well as to identify requirements on decision model elements and presentation. Results indicate that practitioners perceive decision models for microservices to be useful. Challenges include the large number of interlinked knowledge areas, the need for context-specific adaptations, and the need for processes to manage the decision space over time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-65831-5_11
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Decision models,Microservices,Technical action research (TAR)
Architecture,Use case,Systems engineering,Computer science,Action research,Microservices,Decision model,Systems architecture,Documentation,Design space exploration
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10475
0302-9743
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.51
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefan Haselböck171.27
Rainer Weinreich223727.10
Georg Buchgeher310913.81