TY - GEN
T1 - Challenges in documenting microservice-based IT landscape
T2 - 23rd IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2019
AU - Kleehaus, Martin
AU - Matthes, Florian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - The microservice architecture style is currently receiving much attention in both industry and academia. Many companies are already using microservices with great success and the advantages of this architectural style are discussed in numerous papers. However, microservices also introduce a high level of complexity and new challenges regarding to Enterprise Architecture (EA) model maintenance. We conducted a survey among 58 IT practitioners in the German market to analyze the status quo in the adaption of microservices and what challenges organizations face while documenting microservice-based IT landscape from an EA perspective. The eleven identified challenges are synthesized to four categories (content, assignment, tooling, and business-related challenges) and mapped to the usage of microservices which constitute the foundation for future research efforts and pose new research questions not yet considered.
AB - The microservice architecture style is currently receiving much attention in both industry and academia. Many companies are already using microservices with great success and the advantages of this architectural style are discussed in numerous papers. However, microservices also introduce a high level of complexity and new challenges regarding to Enterprise Architecture (EA) model maintenance. We conducted a survey among 58 IT practitioners in the German market to analyze the status quo in the adaption of microservices and what challenges organizations face while documenting microservice-based IT landscape from an EA perspective. The eleven identified challenges are synthesized to four categories (content, assignment, tooling, and business-related challenges) and mapped to the usage of microservices which constitute the foundation for future research efforts and pose new research questions not yet considered.
KW - Challenges
KW - Enterprise architecture
KW - Enterprise architecture documentation
KW - Enterprise architecture management
KW - Enterprise architecture model maintenance
KW - Microservice
KW - Survey
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85078245032&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EDOC.2019.00012
DO - 10.1109/EDOC.2019.00012
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85078245032
T3 - Proceedings - 2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2019
SP - 11
EP - 20
BT - Proceedings - 2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 28 October 2019 through 31 October 2019
ER -