Abstract-The Internet of Things (IoT) is being adopted in different application domains and is recognized as one of the key enablers of the Smart City vision. Despite the standardization efforts and wide adoption of Web standards and cloud computing technologies, however, building large-scale Smart City IoT platforms in practice remains challenging. The dynamically changing IoT environment requires these systems to be able to scale and evolve over time adopting new technologies and requirements. In response to the similar challenges in building large-scale distributed applications and platforms on the Web, microservice architecture style has emerged and gained a lot of popularity in the industry in recent years. In this work, we share our early experience of applying the microservice architecture style to design a Smart City IoT platform. Our experience suggests significant benefits provided by this architectural style compared to the more generic Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approaches, as well as highlights some of the challenges it introduces.
The proposal from Krylovskiy et al. REF is also of great interest, where microservice architecture is put forward as the architectural style to design a Smart City IoT platform.
Designing a Smart City Internet of Things Platform with Microservice Architecture
2015 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud
2015 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud
Computer Science