Microservices have become a popular architectural style for data-driven applications, given
their ability to functionally decompose an application into small and autonomous services to …

Abstract Context: Micro-Frontends are increasing in popularity, being adopted by several
large companies, such as DAZN, Ikea, Starbucks and may others. Micro-Frontends enable …

Background: Various works investigated microservice anti-patterns and bad smells in the
past few years. We identified seven secondary publications that summarize these, but they …

Background: Seeking an appropriate architecture for the design of software is always a
challenge. Although microservices are claimed to be a lightweight architecture style that can …

Context Microservices as a lightweight and decentralized architectural style with fine-
grained services promise several beneficial characteristics for sustainable long-term …

With the adoption of microservices architectural styles, practitioners started noticing
increasing pitfalls in managing and maintaining such architectures, with the risk of …

Context: Securing microservices is crucial, as many IT companies are delivering their
businesses through microservices. If security “smells” affect microservice-based …

Legacy systems are long-lived applications, with obsolete technology and degraded
architecture. These systems hamper digital transformation and innovation, and require a …

The growing adoption of microservice architectures (MSAs) has led to major research and
development efforts to address their challenges and improve their performance, reliability …

Exploiting microservices to architect enterprise applications is becoming commonplace. This
makes it crucial to provide some support for designing and analyzing microservice‐based …