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Introduction to Microservice API Patterns (MAP)

Authors Olaf Zimmermann, Mirko Stocker, Daniel Lübke, Cesare Pautasso, Uwe Zdun

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Olaf Zimmermann
  • University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland, Rapperswil, Switzerland
Mirko Stocker
  • University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland, Rapperswil, Switzerland
Daniel Lübke
  • iQuest GmbH, Hanover, Germany
Cesare Pautasso
  • Software Institute, Faculty of Informatics, USI Lugano, Switzerland
Uwe Zdun
  • University of Vienna, Faculty of Computer Science, Software Architecture Research Group, Vienna, Austria

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Olaf Zimmermann, Mirko Stocker, Daniel Lübke, Cesare Pautasso, and Uwe Zdun. Introduction to Microservice API Patterns (MAP). In Joint Post-proceedings of the First and Second International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2017/2019). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 78, pp. 4:1-4:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.Microservices.2017-2019.4

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The Microservice API Patterns (MAP) language and supporting website premiered under this name at Microservices 2019. MAP distills proven, platform- and technology-independent solutions to recurring (micro-)service design and interface specification problems such as finding well-fitting service granularities, rightsizing message representations, and managing the evolution of APIs and their implementations. In this paper, we motivate the need for such a pattern language, outline the language organization and present two exemplary patterns describing alternative options for representing nested data. We also identify future research and development directions.

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  • Software and its engineering → Patterns
  • Software and its engineering → Designing software
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  • application programming interfaces
  • distributed systems
  • enterprise application integration
  • service-oriented computing
  • software architecture

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