ResilienceBench: Um Ambiente para Avaliação Experimental de Padrões de Resiliência para Microsserviços

• Carlos M. Aderaldo UNIFOR
• Nabor C. Mendonça UNIFOR

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbrc_estendido.2022.223442

Abstract

Microservice developers increasingly use resiliency patterns, such as Retry and Circuit Breaker, to cope with potential failures during the invocation of remote services. However, there is still little work on the impact of those resiliency patterns on application performance. This paper introduces ResilienceBench, a language-agnostic environment to support microservice developers in experimentally evaluating the performance impact of resilience patterns. The paper describes ResilienceBench’s motivation, architecture, and core functionalities, and illustrates its use by presenting an experimental evaluation of the performance impact of the Retry pattern implemented by two popular open source resilience libraries: Polly, for C#, and Resilience4j, for Java.

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