Challenges and Solution Directions of Microservice Architectures
Keywords:
microservice architecture, service decompositionAbstract
The author is of the opinion that, Microservice architectures (MSAs) is kern out to be a dominant model for designing scalable, resilient, and independently deployable software systems. But the adaptation develops new range of technical and operational challenges which includes service decomposition, inter-service communication, data consistency, fault tolerance, observability, security, and deployment complexity. This paper aims to examines the key challenges related to MSAs and explore potential solution based on peer reviewed research from prominent academic sources, identifying prevailing patterns in architectural best practices, middleware solutions, service orchestration, and emerging technologies such as service mesh and decentralized data management.
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