TY - JOUR
T1 - The pains and gains of microservices
T2 - a systematic grey literature review
AU - Soldani, Jacopo
AU - Tamburri, Damian Andrew
AU - van den Heuvel, Willem-Jan
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - The design, development, and operation of microservices are picking up more and more momentum in the IT industry. At the same time, academic work on the topic is at an early stage, and still on the way to distilling the actual “Pains & Gains” of microservices as an architectural style. Having witnessed this gap, we set forth to systematically analyze the industrial grey literature on microservices, to identify the technical/operational pains and gains of the microservice-based architectural style. We conclude by discussing research directions stemming out from our analysis.
AB - The design, development, and operation of microservices are picking up more and more momentum in the IT industry. At the same time, academic work on the topic is at an early stage, and still on the way to distilling the actual “Pains & Gains” of microservices as an architectural style. Having witnessed this gap, we set forth to systematically analyze the industrial grey literature on microservices, to identify the technical/operational pains and gains of the microservice-based architectural style. We conclude by discussing research directions stemming out from our analysis.
KW - Microservices
KW - Microservices design
KW - Microservices development
KW - Microservices operation
KW - Systematic grey literature review
KW - Systematic literature review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85054175054&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jss.2018.09.082
DO - 10.1016/j.jss.2018.09.082
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054175054
SN - 0164-1212
VL - 146
SP - 215
EP - 232
JO - Journal of Systems and Software
JF - Journal of Systems and Software
ER -