ECSA 2025
Mon 15 - Fri 19 September 2025 Limassol, Cyprus
Wed 17 Sep 2025 11:00 - 11:30 at Phoenix - Session 1 - Microservice Architecture Chair(s): Ilias Gerostathopoulos

Over the past decade, the wide adoption of Microservice Architecture has required the identification of various patterns and anti-patterns to prevent Microservice Architectural Degradation. Frequently, the systems are modelled as a network of connected services. Recently, the study of temporal networks has emerged as a way to describe and analyze evolving networks. Previous research has explored how software metrics such as size, complexity, and quality are related to microservice centrality in the architectural network. This study investigates whether temporal centrality metrics can provide insight into the early detection of architectural degradation by correlating or affecting software metrics. We reconstructed the architecture of 7 releases of an OSS microservice project with 42 services. For every service in every release, we computed the software and centrality metrics. From one of the latter, we derived a new metric, Centrality Change Proneness. We then explored the correlation between the metrics. We identified 7 size and 5 complexity metrics that have a consistent correlation with centrality, while Centrality Change Proneness did not affect the software metrics, thus providing yet another perspective and an early indicator of microservice architectural degradation.

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Wed 17 Sep

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11:00 - 12:30
Session 1 - Microservice ArchitectureResearch Papers at Phoenix
Chair(s): Ilias Gerostathopoulos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
11:00
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Centrality Change Proneness: an Early Indicator of Microservice Architectural DegradationResearch Track Paper
Research Papers
Alexander Bakhtin University of Oulu, Matteo Esposito University of Oulu, Valentina Lenarduzzi University of Oulu, Davide Taibi University of Oulu
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11:30
30m
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A Comparative Analysis of Monolith vs Microservices Energy ConsumptionResearch Track Paper
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Roberta Capuano University of L'Aquila, Italy, Eoan O'Dea University of L'Aquila and University of Groningen, Henry Muccini University of L'Aquila, Italy
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12:00
30m
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Data-driven Understanding of Design Decisions in Pattern-based Microservices ArchitecturesResearch Track Paper
Research Papers
Andres Diaz Pace UNICEN University, Catia Trubiani Gran Sasso Science Institute, David Garlan Carnegie Mellon University