Towards an approach to decompose monolithic systems in microservices

• Felipe Chateaubriand Brasil Federal University of Lavras
• Ricardo Terra Federal University of Lavras

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/vem.2020.14524

Abstract

The microservice architecture has been widely adopted in the development of software systems. While the development of new systems occurs naturally, adopting this new architectural style in legacy systems---whose task of migration can be costly, time-consuming, and financially expensive---is a challenging problem. Given this scenario, this article proposes a semi-automatic approach to assist software architects in the task of decomposing monolithic systems in microservices. A preliminary assessment brought promising results since, with few iterations, it obtained a concise set of microservices with greater cohesion (6.98%) and less coupling (5.9%).

Keywords: Architecture, Microservices, Monolithic, Microservices decomposition

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