Microservices in Practice: A Survey Study
This provides insights for software engineers and architects on real-world microservices adoption, but it is incremental as it surveys existing practices without new methods.
The paper tackled the lack of empirical evidence on microservices usage by surveying 122 professionals to report industry practices and compare practitioner perceptions with literature.
Microservices architectures have become largely popular in the last years. However, we still lack empirical evidence about the use of microservices and the practices followed by practitioners. Thereupon, in this paper, we report the results of a survey with 122 professionals who work with microservices. We report how the industry is using this architectural style and whether the perception of practitioners regarding the advantages and challenges of microservices is according to the literature.