Paper Info
Title
Actual Use of Architectural Patterns in Microservices-Based Open Source Projects
Abstract
Microservice-based systems instantiate an architectural style that conceives of systems as sets of modular, customer-centric, independent, and scalable services. These systems express a similar essential structural organization and seems appropriate to design them using architectural patterns because these combine an understanding of the system domain and good practices. Code repository platforms provide the developer community with ideas and examples about microservice systems, but since they are in early adoption, there is still no clear notion of which actual microservice systems incarnate architectural patterns (if any), reducing the use of frameworks and the achievement of quality attributes. This paper extends a previous study on architectural patterns for microservices in academic and industry sources. We explored which architectural patterns for microservices are used in actual microservice-based open source systems, by subjecting thirty well-known open source projects to a comprehensive multi-criteria code and design review. We found that (1) open source projects use only a few architectural patterns broadly; (2) most projects use the same few frameworks; (3) there are very few microservice architectural patterns as such; and (4) what most projects use (what was previously called) are SOA patterns. This study shows that microservice systems builders do use architectural patterns, but only a few of them. It remains to be determined whether additional patterns would be productively used to build microservice systems, or the few ones currently used are the only ones actually necessary.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/APSEC.2018.00017
2018 25th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Industries,Service-oriented architecture,Scalability,Companies,Computer architecture,Correlation,Market research
Systems engineering,Computer science,Microservices,Architectural pattern
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1362
978-1-7281-1970-0
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gastón Marquez1116.02
Hernán Astudillo226436.77