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Migrating to Cloud-Native Architectures Using Microservices: An Experience Report

Part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS,volume 567)

Abstract

Migration to the cloud has been a popular topic in industry and academia in recent years. Despite many benefits that the cloud presents, such as high availability and scalability, most of the on-premise application architectures are not ready to fully exploit the benefits of this environment, and adapting them to this environment is a non-trivial task. Microservices have appeared recently as novel architectural styles that are native to the cloud. These cloud-native architectures can facilitate migrating on-premise architectures to fully benefit from the cloud environments because non-functional attributes, like scalability, are inherent in this style. The existing approaches on cloud migration does not mostly consider cloud-native architectures as their first-class citizens. As a result, the final product may not meet its primary drivers for migration. In this paper, we intend to report our experience and lessons learned in an ongoing project on migrating a monolithic on-premise software architecture to microservices. We concluded that microservices is not a one-fit-all solution as it introduces new complexities to the system, and many factors, such as distribution complexities, should be considered before adopting this style. However, if adopted in a context that needs high flexibility in terms of scalability and availability, it can deliver its promised benefits.

Keywords

  • Cloud migration
  • Microservices
  • Cloud-native architectures
  • Software modernization

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The work of Pooyan Jamshidi has been supported by the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4) and by the Horizon 2020 project no. 644869 (DICE).

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

    Armin Balalaie & Abbas Heydarnoori

  2. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Pooyan Jamshidi

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Balalaie, A., Heydarnoori, A., Jamshidi, P. (2016). Migrating to Cloud-Native Architectures Using Microservices: An Experience Report. In: Celesti, A., Leitner, P. (eds) Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. ESOCC 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 567. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33313-7_15

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