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Microservices Deployment on a Multi-platform Ecosystem: A Contract-Based Approach

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To address the limitations of running monolithic applications, many organizations opt for microservices as a technology of choice that would make these applications agile. In addition to microservices, organizations are tapping into other technologies like cloud and edge to ensure computational, communication, and storage resource provisioning to their applications. To confirm this provisioning, this paper presents a contract-based approach for deploying microservices on top of a multi-platform ecosystem consisting of cloud, edge, and IoT devices. The approach integrates different contracts that capture the orchestration and choreography interactions during the deployment of microservices on different platforms. Technologies like Kubernetes and Amazon Web Services implementing a case study are used to demonstrate this deployment’s technical doability.

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Notes

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    www.nginx.com/blog/microservices-at-netflix-architectural-best-practices.

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    Puliafito et al. report that “the average round trip time between an Amazon Cloud server in Virginia (U.S.A.) and a device in the U.S. Pacific Coast is 66 ms; it is equal to 125 ms if the end device is in Italy; and reaches 302 ms when the device is in Beijing” [22].

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    Many orchestrators could exist but this aspect is not considered.

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The authors would like to thank Fadwa Yahya, Mohammad Askar, Vanilson Arruda Burégio, and Edvan Soares for their contributions to the work reported in this chapter.

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  1. University of Doha for Science and Technology, Doha, Qatar

    Zakaria Maamar

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    Noura Faci

  3. Université Paris-Dauphine, Université PSL, CNRS, LAMSADE, 75016, Paris, France

    Noura Faci & Joyce El Haddad

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Maamar, Z., Faci, N., El Haddad, J. (2023). Microservices Deployment on a Multi-platform Ecosystem: A Contract-Based Approach. In: Fill, HG., van Sinderen, M., Maciaszek, L.A. (eds) Software Technologies. ICSOFT 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1859. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37231-5_2

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