• Corpus ID: 245853592

Designing Microservice Systems Using Patterns: An Empirical Study on Quality Trade-Offs

@article{Vale2022DesigningMS,
  title={Designing Microservice Systems Using Patterns: An Empirical Study on Quality Trade-Offs},
  author={Guilherme de Azevedo Vale and Filipe Figueiredo Correia and Eduardo Martins Guerra and Thatiane de Oliveira Rosa and Jonas Fritzsch and Justus Bogner},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2022},
  volume={abs/2201.03598}
}

• G. Vale, F. F. Correia, +3 authors J. Bogner
• Published 10 January 2022
• Computer Science
• ArXiv

The promise of increased agility, autonomy, scalability, and reusability has made the microservices architecture a de facto standard for the development of large-scale and cloud-native commercial applications. Software patterns are an important design tool, and often they are selected and combined with the goal of obtaining a set of desired quality attributes. However, from a research standpoint, many patterns have not been widely validated against industry practice, making them not much more than interesting theories. To address this, we investigated how practitioners perceive the impact of 14 patterns on 7 quality attributes. Hence, we conducted 9 semi-structured interviews to collect industry expertise regarding (1) knowledge and adoption of software patterns, (2) the perceived architectural trade-offs of patterns, and (3) metrics professionals use to measure quality attributes. We found that many of the trade-offs reported in our study matched the documentation of each respective pattern, and identified several gains and pains which have not yet been reported, leading to novel insight about microservice patterns.