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Best Practices and Strategy for the Migration of Service-Oriented Architecture-Based Applications to Microservices Architecture

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Microservices has become a buzzword in IT, and large enterprise companies like Netflix, Twitter, Spotify, and others have begun to develop their applications in this new architectural style. To take advantage of the numerous benefits of the new design, a few firms have begun migrating their traditional monolithic, and SOA-based applications to microservices. Software architects, on the other hand, are uncertain about whether or not to migrate to this new style since they are unclear of the benefits and drawbacks of doing so. Migration of any application from one architecture to another exhibits different challenges like which portion of the code to be migrated, the migration approach to be followed etc. With our experience in migrating the existing SOA-based applications to microservices, we propose the migration strategy as well as the best practices in creating new microservices or migrating existing applications to microservices architecture. We consider a standard Web-based application and demonstrate the proposed migration strategy. The future research directions are also presented.

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    Vinay Raj & K. Srinivasa Reddy

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    A. Brahmananda Reddy

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    B.V. Kiranmayee

  3. Centre for Business Data Analytics, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Raghava Rao Mukkamala

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CMR Technical Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    K. Srujan Raju

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Raj, V., Srinivasa Reddy, K. (2022). Best Practices and Strategy for the Migration of Service-Oriented Architecture-Based Applications to Microservices Architecture. In: Reddy, A.B., Kiranmayee, B., Mukkamala, R.R., Srujan Raju, K. (eds) Proceedings of Second International Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering and Communication Systems. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7389-4_43

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