Enabling Community Health Care with Microservices
This work addresses the problem of designing scalable healthcare systems for communities, but it appears incremental as it applies existing microservice concepts to a specific domain without claiming major breakthroughs.
The paper tackles the challenge of modeling complex IoT applications in community healthcare by applying microservice architectures, demonstrating their potential for scalability and resilience in handling software and hardware interactions.
Microservice architectures (MA) are composed of loosely coupled, course-grained services that emphasise resilience and autonomy, enabling more scalable applications to be developed. Such architectures are more tolerant of changing demands from users and enterprises, in response to emerging technologies and their associated influences upon human interaction and behaviour. This article looks at microservices in the Internet of Things (IoT) through the lens of agency, and using an example in the community health care domain explores how a complex application scenario (both in terms of software and hardware interactions) might be modelled.