Migration of Monolithic Systems to Microservices: A Systematic Mapping Study

GUILLERMO RODRÍGUEZ; FABIO ROCHA; ALEX DOS SANTOS MOURA

San Pablo

Conferencia; International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management; 2020

Universidade de Sao Paulo

The popularity of microservices architecture has been increasing considerably because of its capacity to alleviate monolithic architecture issues, namely: limited scalability in terms of modules, hard maintenance, and technological dependence, among others. Due to these issues, it is crucial to migrate to microservices architecture. The relevance of this work stems from the fact that there is an urgent need of methodologies and techniques to address migration towards microservices, such as decomposition from the monolithic, communication between services, DevOps implantation, etc. We revised research works recently published aiming to analyze migration cases of applications, identification of microservices techniques, factors that promote the migration, tools that are being used during the migration, problems and benefits of the migration. Results showed that this article contributed considerably to shed some light on migration processes, microservice identification techniques, factors that drive migration, tools that are used during the migration, migration problems and benefits.