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Architectural languages in the microservice era: a systematic mapping study

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Michael Mathews,

Pavel Tisnovsky,

Davide TaibiAuthors Info & Claims

RACS '22: Proceedings of the Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems

Pages 39 - 46

https://doi.org/10.1145/3538641.3561486

Published: 20 October 2022 Publication History

Abstract

In modern software systems, Microservice Architecture (MSA) has gained popularity over monolithic design by providing the ability for flexible and independently upgradable services. Although there are considerable benefits that MSA provides, as new microservices are introduced into these MSA-based systems, they can become increasingly complex and hard to understand. Architectural languages are a potential solution to this problem because they can provide a comprehensive overview of system's architecture as it changes. In this paper, the authors conduct a systematic mapping study to identify the architectural languages discussed in academia. In particular, the authors observe the architectural languages that have the capability of representing MSA-based systems. Through the use of a detailed query in 4 reliable indexers, a collection of 402 papers were filtered down to a small set of 19 relevant papers. This filtration was done based on a research paper inclusion criteria and a language inclusion criteria. With these papers, a total of 12 architectural languages were investigated for the representation of MSA-based systems.

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Index Terms

Architectural languages in the microservice era: a systematic mapping study
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Distributed architectures
      1. Client-server architectures
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software design engineering
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. System description languages
      1. Architecture description languages
      2. System modeling languages

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RACS '22: Proceedings of the Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems

October 2022

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ISBN:9781450393980

DOI:10.1145/3538641

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The University of Aizu, Japan
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Esparza-Peidro JMuñoz-Escoí FBernabéu-Aubán J(2024)Modeling microservice architecturesJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2024.112041213:COnline publication date: 1-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2024.112041
Arslan SOzkaya MKardas G(2023)Modeling Languages for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications: A Comparative Analysis StudyMathematics10.3390/math1105126311:5(1263)Online publication date: 6-Mar-2023
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