A Microservice-based Middleware for the Digital Factory

Ciavotta, Michele; Alge, Marino; Menato, Silvia; Rovere, Diego; Pedrazzoli, Paolo

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2017.07.197

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“…Another industry that provides wide scope for IoT is the manufacturing industry. Ciavotta et al applied the microservices architectural approach to design simulation tools to support the manufacturing lifecycle in factories and for machine‐to‐machine (M2M) interactions. Another solution for M2M service management has been proposed by Krivic et al The authors presented an agent‐based solution based on microservices for establishing M2M bidirectional communication and thereby gain access to the services.…”

Section: Domain‐specific Microservice‐based Architecturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Straddling the crevasse: A review of microservice software architecture foundations and recent advancements

Joseph

Chandrasekaran

2019

Softw Pract Exp

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Microservice architecture style has been gaining wide impetus in the software engineering industry. Researchers and practitioners have adopted the microservices concepts into several application domains such as the internet of things, cloud computing, service computing, and healthcare. Applications developed in alignment with the microservices principles require an underlying platform with management capabilities to coordinate the different microservice units and ensure that the application functionalities are delivered to the user. A multitude of approaches has been proposed for the various tasks in microservices-based systems. However, since the field is relatively young, there is a need to organize the different research works. In this study, we present a comprehensive review of the research approaches directed toward microservice architectures and propose a multilevel taxonomy to categorize the existing research. The study also discusses the different distributed computing paradigms employing microservices and identifies the open research challenges in the domain.

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Section: Domain‐specific Microservice‐based Architecturesmentioning

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Straddling the crevasse: A review of microservice software architecture foundations and recent advancements

Joseph

Chandrasekaran

2019

Softw Pract Exp

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“…As a potential solution, they propose application based on microservice architecture. Similar, the authors [8] present the advantages that are characteristic to microservice architecture such as agility, insulation, resistance, elasticity, robustness, tolerance for errors, scalability, etc.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…In the [23] authors present the implementation of a distributed middleware developed within the frame of MAYA European project. This middleware is tailored to enable scalable interoperability between enterprise applications and CPSs (Cyber-Physical-Systems).…”

Section: Microservice Based Applications In Iot and Wsn Systemsmentioning

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Approach in the development of lightweight microservice architecture for small data center monitoring system

Malić¹,

Dobrilovic²,

Malić³

et al. 2020

IJEEC

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In the past decade there is a significant trend of implementing IoT technologies and standards in different industries. This trend brings cost reductions to the companies and other benefits as well. One of the main benefits is real-time and uniform data collection. The data are transferred using diverse communication protocols, from the sensor nodes to the centralized application. So far, current approaches in developing applications are not proved itself to be efficient enough in scenarios when a significant amount of data needs to be stored and analyzed. The focus of this paper is on development of software architecture suitable for usage in Internet of Things (IoT) systems where the larger amount of data can be processed in real-time. The software architecture is developed in order to support the sensor network for monitoring the small data center and it is based on microservices. Besides the system and its architecture, this paper presents the method of analysis of system performances in real-time environment. The proposal for lightweight microservice architecture, presented in this paper, is developed with .NET Core and RabbitMQ, with the utilization of MongoDB and SQLite databases systems for storing data collected with IoT devices. In this paper, the system evaluation and research results in different stress scenarios are also presented. Because of its complexity, only the most significant segments of architecture will be presented in this paper. The proposed solution showed that proposed lightweight architecture based on microservices could deal with the larger amount of sensor data in the case of using MongoDB. On the other hand, the usage of SQLite database is not recommended due to the lower performances and test results.

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“…In this context, the main objective of digitalization of production environments is to achieve a new automation paradigm, more flexible, responsive to changes and safe [5]. The service-oriented architectural style has attracted the interest of research and practitioners from the manufacturing domain a long time ago, e.g., [6] and [7], since the identification of the most suitable architecture greatly impacts not only the development process of the system [8] but also its entire life cycle.…”

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Cyber-physical microservices: An IoT-based framework for manufacturing systems

Thramboulidis

Vachtsevanou

Solanos

2018

2018 IEEE Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS)

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Recent advances in ICT enable the evolution of the manufacturing industry to meet the new requirements of the society. Cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and Cloud computing, play a key role in the fourth industrial revolution known as Industry 4.0. The microservice architecture has evolved as an alternative to SOA and promises to address many of the challenges in software development. In this paper, we adopt the concept of microservice and describe a framework for manufacturing systems that has the cyber-physical microservice as the key construct. The manufacturing plant processes are defined as compositions of primitive cyber-physical microservices adopting either the orchestration or the choreography pattern. IoT technologies are used for system integration and model-driven engineering is utilized to semiautomate the development process for the industrial engineer, who is not familiar with microservices and IoT. Two case studies demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach.

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A Microservice-based Middleware for the Digital Factory

Cited by 76 publications

References 9 publications

Straddling the crevasse: A review of microservice software architecture foundations and recent advancements

Straddling the crevasse: A review of microservice software architecture foundations and recent advancements

Approach in the development of lightweight microservice architecture for small data center monitoring system

Cyber-physical microservices: An IoT-based framework for manufacturing systems

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