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Article · IEEE Transactions on Services Computing · December 21, 2018

Microservices: Migration of a Mission Critical System

Manuel Mazzara, Nicola Dragoni, Antonio Bucchiarone, Alberto Giaretta, Stephan T. Larsen, Schahram Dustdar

Manuel Mazzara
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Abstract

An increasing interest is growing around the idea of microservices and the promise of improving scalability when compared to monolithic systems. Several companies are evaluating pros and cons of a complex migration. In particular, financial institutions are positioned in a difficult situation due to the economic climate and the appearance of agile competitors that can navigate in a more flexible legal framework and started their business since day one with more agile architectures and without being bounded to outdated technological standard. In this paper, we present a real world case study in order to demonstrate how scalability is positively affected by re-implementing a monolithic architecture (MA) into a microservices architecture (MSA). The case study is based on theFX Coresystem, a mission critical system of Danske Bank, the largest bank in Denmark and one of the leading financial institutions in Northern Europe. The technical problem that has been addressed and solved in this paper is the identification of a repeatable migration process that can be used to convert a real world Monolithic architecture into a Microservices architecture in the specific setting of financial domain, typically characterized by legacy systems and batch-based processing on heterogeneous data sources.

Software System Performance and ReliabilityAdvanced Software Engineering MethodologiesSoftware Engineering Researchmicroservicesmonolith to microservices migrationscalability

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