Microservice system solutions are now mainstream. The older microservices-based systems
are not more than 15 years old, and their architecture is by far different than the one …

Understanding software systems written by others is often challenging. When we want to
assess systems to reason about them, ie, to understand dependencies, analyze evolution …

Microservices bring various benefits to software systems. They also bring decentralization
and lose coupling across self-contained system parts. Since these systems likely evolve in a …

Microservices are supporting digital transformation; however, fundamental tools and system
perspectives are missing to better observe, understand, and manage these systems, their …

Architecture recovery tools help software engineers obtain an overview of the structure of
their software systems during all phases of the software development life cycle. This is …

With the rise of cloud computing, many applications have been implemented into
microservices to fully utilize cloud computing for scalability and maintainability purposes …

Microservices architecture smells can significantly affect the quality of microservices due to
poor design decisions, especially the granularity smells of microservice architectures will …

Microservices expose their functionality via remote Application Programming Interfaces
(APIs), eg, based on HTTP or asynchronous messaging technology. To solve recurring …

The API Rate Limit pattern controls the rate at which clients make API requests by counting
the number of requests in a specified time interval and reacting against abusive clients, in …

Cloud-native systems have become widely embraced by the industry. The decentralization
characteristic of these systems provides many benefits, which have led to their widespread …