Performance engineering for microservices: Research challenges & directions

Start Page
223
End Page
226
Citation
Third Workshop on Challenges in Performance Methods for Software Development (WOSP-C 2017) at 8th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2017), 223-226, ACM, New York, USA, 2017
Contribution to Conference
ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, ICPE 2017 
Publisher DOI
10.1145/3053600.3053653
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85019457941
Microservices complement approaches like DevOps and continuous delivery in terms of software architecture. Along with this architectural style, several important deployment technologies, such as container-based virtualization and container orchestration solutions, have emerged. These technologies allow to efficiently exploit cloud platforms, providing a high degree of scalability, availability, and portability for microservices. Despite the obvious importance of a sufficient level of performance, there is still a lack of performance engineering approaches explicitly taking into account the particularities of microservices. In this paper, we argue why new solutions to performance engineering for microservices are needed. Furthermore, we identify open issues and outline possible re- search directions with regard to performance-Aware testing, monitoring, and modeling of microservices.