Microservices in Practice: A Survey Study

TL;DR

This survey study explores how industry professionals implement microservices, revealing current practices, perceptions, and challenges, thus providing empirical insights into the adoption of this architectural style.

Contribution

It provides empirical data on microservices usage and perceptions, filling the gap in understanding industry practices and aligning them with existing literature.

Findings

Practitioners see microservices as beneficial for scalability and flexibility.

Common challenges include complexity and deployment difficulties.

Industry practices vary widely across organizations.

Abstract

Microservices architectures have become largely popular in the last years. However, we still lack empirical evidence about the use of microservices and the practices followed by practitioners. Thereupon, in this paper, we report the results of a survey with 122 professionals who work with microservices. We report how the industry is using this architectural style and whether the perception of practitioners regarding the advantages and challenges of microservices is according to the literature.