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Microservices: The Journey So Far and Challenges Ahead
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Microservices are an architectural approach emerging out of service-oriented architecture, emphasizing self-management and lightweightness as the means to improve software agility, scalability, and autonomy. This article examines microservice evolution from the technological and architectural perspectives and discusses key challenges facing future microservice developments.
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- Authors
- Jamshidi, P., Pahl, C., Mendonca, N. C., Lewis, J., & Tilkov, S.
- Venue
- IEEE Software
- Published
- 2018-05
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 24-35
- ISSN
- 0740-7459 (ISSN-L)
- 1937-4194
- OpenAlex
- W2799310732
- Cited by
- 554
- References
- 11
- FWCI
- 33.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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