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Microservices emerged as a popular architectural style over the last decade. Although microservices are designed to be self-contained, they must communicate to realize business capabilities, creating dependencies among their data and functionalities. Developers then resort to asynchronous, event-based communication to fulfill such dependencies while reducing coupling. However, developers are often oblivious to the inherent challenges of the asynchronous and event-based paradigm, leading to frustrations and ultimately making them reconsider the adoption of microservices. To make matters worse, there is a scarcity of literature on the practices and challenges of designing, implementing, testing, monitoring, and troubleshooting event-based microservices. To fill this gap, this paper provides the first comprehensive characterization of event management practices and challenges in microservices based on a repository mining study of over 8000 Stack Overflow questions. Moreover, 628 relevant questions were randomly sampled for an in-depth manual investigation of challenges. We find that developers encounter many problems, including large event payloads, modeling event schemas, auditing ev

Author

Laigner, Rodrigo; Almeida, Ana Carolina; Assunção, Wesley K. G.; Zhou, Yongluan

Published

2024

Language

EN