Optimizing microservices design pattern: maximizing communication speed and prolonging application longevity
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.20535/SRIT.2308-8893.2026.1.02Keywords:
microservice, application design, communication speed, domain-driven, monolith application, application life cycle, event, message bus, osi model, delivery, guarantee, application layerAbstract
Microservice oriented application design obtained popularity in the past years. Most researchers investigated some aspects in microservice design for implementing application functionality. Little research considered the core functionality of microservices. This research investigates how to construct a microservice communication system by yourself in detail. The results should assist developers and architects to construct their own microservice applications, use less amount of frameworks and therefore prolong overall microservice system life cycle. The standard TCP/IP connection and embedded libraries were used to construct the communication system without using any additional frameworks. As a practical application of this methodology a microservice core system was implemented with a minimum number of microservices to perform performance testing. The measured application layer communication speed turned out to exceed the speed in real application because of database operation limitations. The implemented microservice core system is intended to be used in financial commercial applications as well as in further scientific investigations.References
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