Towards an Integrated Micro-services Architecture for Campus environments

Abstract

This paper posits the need for an integrated micro services framework for handling all business and student services at our local University. We present the research question, “to what extent do the functionalities of the micro service frameworks provide beneficial considerations for the implementation of a micro service system within the University campus environment?” We discuss the response to this question regarding using a use case implementation now in progress from our enterprise systems solution - ISAS (Integrated Student Assessment System). The assumption is to implement functional micro-services to support our student and staff environments like never before. As such, the pivot from traditionally monolithic legacy systems to one that is component-based and service-driven is urgently necessary to allow our University to support all its application layered services continuously. The adaption of scalable micro services architectures focuses on Universities like ours to keep delivering a sustainable virtual presence. We use the summary perspectives presented in this paper to inform other institutions seeking to make these changes part of driving workable virtualized infrastructure, both containerized and serverless in design.