A Comparative Review of Microservices and Monolithic Architectures

Microservices' architecture is getting attention in the academic community and the industry, and mostly is compared with monolithic architecture. Plenty of the results of these research papers contradict each other regarding the performance of these architectures. Therefore, these two architect...

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Published inIEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Informatics pp. 000149 - 000154
Main Authors Al-Debagy, Omar, Martinek, Peter
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.11.2018
Subjects
Cloud computing
Computer architecture
Concurrent computing
Microservices Architecture
Monolithic Architecture
Performance Evaluation
Service-oriented architecture
Testing
Throughput
Time factors
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ISSN2471-9269
DOI10.1109/CINTI.2018.8928192

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Summary:Microservices' architecture is getting attention in the academic community and the industry, and mostly is compared with monolithic architecture. Plenty of the results of these research papers contradict each other regarding the performance of these architectures. Therefore, these two architectures are compared in this paper, and some specific configurations of microservices' applications are evaluated as well in the term of service discovery. Monolithic architecture in concurrency testing showed better performance in throughput by 6% when compared to microservices architecture. The load testing scenario did not present significant difference between the two architectures. Furthermore, a third test comparing microservices applications built with different service discovery technologies such as Consul and Eureka showed that applications with Consul presented better results in terms of throughput.
ISSN:2471-9269
DOI:10.1109/CINTI.2018.8928192