A Design with Mobile Agent Architecture for Refactoring A Monolithic Service into Microservices

Abstract

Refactoring monolithic architecture into microservice architecture is a difficult task. In many cases, a monolithic service is divided into N-tiers based on the N-tier architecture. In order to divide a monolithic service into microservices, it is necessary to redefine a model as a new microservice by extracting models across layers and integrating them. However, since different layers and architectures are used for each layer, such as a database, an application framework, server software, etc., programs and models extracted from each tier are often redesigned and re-implemented in many cases. In this paper, we focus to the mobile agent technology that builds a system only by the simple two methods of agent's migration between computers and messaging between agents