AI Techniques in the Microservices Life-Cycle: a Systematic Mapping Study
Abstract The use of AI in microservices (MSs) is an emerging field as indicated by a substantial number of surveys. However these surveys focus on a specific problem using specific AI techniques, therefore not fully capturing the growth of research and the rise and disappearance of trends. In our systematic mapping study, we take an exhaustive approach to reveal all possible connections between the use of AI techniques for improving any quality attribute (QA) of MSs during the DevOps phases. Our results include 16 research themes that connect to the intersection of particular QAs, AI domains and DevOps phases. Moreover by mapping identified future research challenges and relevant industry domains, we can show that many studies aim to deliver prototypes to be automated at a later stage, aiming at providing exploitable products in a number of key industry domains.
Authors
- Eddy Truyen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7448-7681)
- Jacopo Soldani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2435-3543)
- Davide Taibi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0785-6771)
- Fabiano Pecorelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2446-4291)
- Daniel Balouek‐Thomert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6038-1077)
- Ivan Lanese (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2527-9995)
- Justus Bogner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5788-0991)
- Shahrzad M. Pour (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2585-2360)
- Sergio Moreschini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5582-9487)
- Xiaozhou Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6904-9393)
Institutions
- University of Pisa (IT)
- Tampere University (FI)
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes (FR)
- Pegaso University (IT)
- IMT Atlantique (FR)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- University of Bologna (IT)
- Technical University of Denmark (DK)
- Nantes Université (FR)
- University of Oulu (FI)
- KU Leuven (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Computing
- Published
- 2025-03-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-025-01432-z
- Citations
- 9
- Primary Topic
- Software System Performance and Reliability
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 13.38
Funders
- KU Leuven
- Oulun Yliopisto