Microservices: yesterday, today, and tomorrow

TL;DR

This paper reviews the evolution, current state, and future challenges of microservices architecture, providing a comprehensive overview for newcomers and discussing practical issues and potential solutions.

Contribution

It offers a historical perspective on microservices, summarizes current research, and highlights open problems and future directions in the field.

Findings

Microservices architecture is increasingly popular in software development.

The paper identifies key open problems and future challenges.

Practical issues and potential solutions are discussed.

Abstract

Microservices is an architectural style inspired by service-oriented computing that has recently started gaining popularity. Before presenting the current state-of-the-art in the field, this chapter reviews the history of software architecture, the reasons that led to the diffusion of objects and services first, and microservices later. Finally, open problems and future challenges are introduced. This survey primarily addresses newcomers to the discipline, while offering an academic viewpoint on the topic. In addition, we investigate some practical issues and point out some potential solutions.