Migration of Software Components to Microservices: Matching and Synthesis

Andreas Christoforou, Lambros Odysseos, Andreas Andreou

2019

Abstract

Nowadays more and more software companies, as well as individual software developers, adopt the microservice architecture for their software solutions. Although many software systems are being designed and developed from scratch, a significant number of existing monolithic solutions tend to be transformed to this new architectural style. What is less common, though, is how to migrate component-based software systems to systems composed of microservices and enjoy the benefits of ease of changes, rapid deployment and versatile architecture. This paper proposes a novel and integrated process for the decomposition of existing software components with the aim being to fully or partially replace their functional parts with by a number of suitable and available microservices. The proposed process is built on semi-formal profiling and utilizes ontologies to match between properties of the decomposed functions of the component and those offered by microservices residing in a repository. Matching concludes with recommended solutions yielded by multi-objective optimization which considers also possible dependencies between the functional parts.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Christoforou A., Odysseos L. and Andreou A. (2019). Migration of Software Components to Microservices: Matching and Synthesis.In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-375-9, pages 134-146. DOI: 10.5220/0007732101340146

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase19,
author={Andreas Christoforou and Lambros Odysseos and Andreas Andreou},
title={Migration of Software Components to Microservices: Matching and Synthesis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2019},
pages={134-146},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007732101340146},
isbn={978-989-758-375-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Migration of Software Components to Microservices: Matching and Synthesis
SN - 978-989-758-375-9
AU - Christoforou A.
AU - Odysseos L.
AU - Andreou A.
PY - 2019
SP - 134
EP - 146
DO - 10.5220/0007732101340146