Software Versioning with Microservices through the API Gateway Design Pattern


AKBULUT A., Perros H. G.

9th International Conference on Advanced Computer Information Technologies (ACIT), Cheske-Budejovice, Çek Cumhuriyeti, 5 - 07 Haziran 2019, ss.289-292 identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/acitt.2019.8779952
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Cheske-Budejovice
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Çek Cumhuriyeti
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.289-292
  • İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The microservices architecture is a relatively new approach in implementing service-oriented systems. This cloud- native architectural style enables the implementation of loosely coupled, agile, reuse-oriented, and lightweight services instead of monoliths. It also eliminates vendor and/or technology lock-ins. A modification to a small code segment for monoliths may require the building and deployment of a completely new version of the software. However, the modular form of microservices allows solving software versioning in a polyglot manner. In this paper, we extend the well-known microservice design pattern API gateway with a view to managing the virtual hardware configuration of containers. Specifically, using the proposed approach, the service capacity in the requested version of the service is orchestrated adaptively in compliance with a service-level agreement. In our tests, we found that the proposed version management approach reduced the hosting cost by 27% compared to static or rule-based scaling.