SUAM: A Service Unified Access Model for Microservice Management

Abstract

Microservice architecture promotes the cost reduction, efficiency increase, and quality improvement of software development. However, with the diversification of manufacturers’ technology and the complexity of the services, the existing research on unified access to microservice lacks a specification that can be summarized, and more intrusive transformations of access service are required in the access process. Aiming at the standardization of unified access of microservice, the Service Unified Access Model (SUAM) is proposed. The main purpose of the model is to solve the complexity of multi-language and multi-platform access of the microservice and the standardization of the access process. The model makes a contribution to the service from three aspects: service resources, product resources, and function properties. This model can not only describe the functionality of the service in more detail but also can help reduce the amount of access code by 15% without affecting the business function of the accessed service.