Packaging microservices (work in progress)

Abstract

We describe a first proposal for a new packaging system for microservices based on the Jolie programming language, called the Jolie Package Manager (JPM). Its main features revolve around service interfaces, which make the functionalities that a service provides and depends on explicit. For the first time, JPM supports binding a service to an externally-provided package, and a notion of interface parametricity that can be used to develop generic service libraries that can modify the behaviour of arbitrary services.We illustrate the latter with a generic circuit breaker package.