2017/09/14 by Nane Kratzke, Kratzke, Nane · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Cloud Computing and Resource Management #Distributed #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Parallel #Software System Performance and Reliability #Software-Defined Networks and 5G #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1710.04049
openalex created_date 2017/06/15 · openalex publication_date 2017/09/14 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Microservices are used to build complex applications composed of small, independent and highly decoupled processes. Recently, microservices are often mentioned in one breath with container technologies like Docker. That is why operating system virtualization experiences a renaissance in cloud computing. These approaches shall provide horizontally scalable, easily deployable systems and a high-performance alternative to hypervisors. Nevertheless, performance impacts of containers on top of hypervisors are hardly investigated. Furthermore, microservice frameworks often come along with software defined networks. This contribution presents benchmark results to quantify the impacts of container, software defined networking and encryption on network performance. Even containers, although postulated to be lightweight, show a noteworthy impact to network performance. These impacts can be minimized on several system layers. Some design recommendations for cloud deployed systems following the microservice architecture pattern are derived.