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Freshening the Air in Microservices: Resolving Architectural Smells via Refactoring

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The adoption of microservice-based architectures is becoming common practice for enterprise applications. Checking whether an application adheres to the main design principles of microservices, and —if not— understanding how to refactor it, are two key issues in that context. In this paper, we present a methodology to systematically identify the architectural smells that possibly violate the main design principles of microservices, and to select suitable architectural refactorings to resolve them. We also present a prototype implementing the methodology, based on a novel representation of microservices in TOSCA.

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Notes

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    https://di-unipi-socc.github.io/microTOSCA/microTOSCA.yml.

  2. 2.

    Multiple relations from component x to component y indicate that x interacts with y in different ways (e.g., directly in one case, via a circuit breaker in another case).

  3. 3.

    https://github.com/di-unipi-socc/microFreshener.

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Work partly funded by the projects AMaCA (POR-FSE, Regione Toscana) and DECLware (PRA_2018_66, University of Pisa).

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Brogi, A., Neri, D., Soldani, J. (2020). Freshening the Air in Microservices: Resolving Architectural Smells via Refactoring. In: Yangui, S., et al. Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2019 Workshops. ICSOC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12019. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45989-5_2

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