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Migration to Microservices: Barriers and Solutions

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Microservices architecture (MSA) has been emerged over the past few years. Despite standardization efforts, migrating large-scale legacy applications into microservices architecture remains challenging. This study presents the results of seventeen interviews about obstacles and suggested solutions in migration to microservices. We analyzed the results of interviews using Jobs-to-be-done framework in literature and classified the barriers into three categories—inertia, anxiety and context. This work provides a categorization and a framework to overcome the barriers based on the advises of experts in this field. The results can be a reference for future research directions and advanced migration solutions.

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  1. Department of Informatics/Mathematics, HTW Dresden University of Applied Sciences, Dresden, Germany

    Javad Ghofrani

  2. General Practice and Family Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Arezoo Bozorgmehr

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Ghofrani, J., Bozorgmehr, A. (2019). Migration to Microservices: Barriers and Solutions. In: Florez, H., Leon, M., Diaz-Nafria, J., Belli, S. (eds) Applied Informatics. ICAI 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1051. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32475-9_20

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