Towards a Viewpoint-specific Metamodel for Model-driven Development of Microservice Architecture

2018/04/26 by Florian Rademacher, Jonas Sorgalla, Rademacher, Florian +5
Computer Science · #Software System Performance and Reliability #Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies #Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1804.09948

Abstract

Microservice Architecture (MSA) is a service-based architectural style with a strong emphasis on high cohesion and loose coupling. It is commonly regarded as a descendant of Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) and thus might draw on existing findings of SOA research. This paper presents a metamodel for Model-driven Development (MDD) of MSA, which is deduced from existing SOA modeling approaches, but also incorporates MSA-specific modeling concepts. It is divided into the three viewpoints Data, Service and Operation, each of which encapsulates concepts related to a certain aspect of MSA. The metamodel aims to support DevOps-based MSA development and automatic transformation of metamodel instances into MSA implementations.

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