Efficient Resources Utilization by Different Microservices Deployment Models

Abstract

The adoption of microservice-based architecture has become increasingly popular. Microservice containerization is a technique used by developers to facilitate the deployment process of applications based on this architecture. There are several implementation models for microservices. In this paper we study and analyze the performance of these models in terms of the use of network, CPU, memory and disk. Pros and cons related to the development process are also discussed. Among the results obtained with measurements made in a public cloud, the significant reductions in network consumption (up to 99%) are noteworthy when using one container per microservice.