Agility with Microservices Programming

Tunis, Tunesia co-located with ICSOC 2024 @ December 3rd, 2024
Source: Barcha

Agility with Microservices Programming 2024

Scope

The AMP workshop aims at collecting experiences on microservices adoption, reporting best practices, but also specially failure cases, so as to build community knowledge based on previous errors and successes. The workshop is open to experience reports from practitioners and academia. The fifth edition of AMP aims to continue the success of its previous editions from 2020 to 2023.

We seek to collect original work on the science and engineering of programming microservices, including but not limited to evolutionary and agile architectures, methods and tools, patterns, operational practices and DevOps, agile teams, programming languages and techniques for microservices, software quality aspects, metrics and software analytics, verification, test-driven approaches and testing, architectural refactoring, empirical studies and experience reports on microservices adoption and teaching.

Links to previous editions of the AMP Workshop:

AMP2023 (co-located with ECSA 2023)
AMP2022 (co-located with XP 2022)
AMP2021
AMP2020

Theme and Topics

Agile architecture does not necessarily emerge from the use of agile development practices, it needs to be deliberately sought after. This often means creating systems as sets of small, independent components that collaborate to provide the desired functionality. Such components are usually loosely-coupled and expose well-defined APIs that are accessible over standard communication protocols and data formats—they can be individually developed and tested, they can be easily replaced by alternative implementations if needed, and they provide great flexibility when deploying and scaling the system.

This style of architecture is often described as microservices. Essentially, microservices decompose a system into an architecture of standalone modules that (i) are simpler to maintain and evolve; (ii) scale efficiently; and (iii) can be reused as building blocks for other architectures. Transitioning to a microservice architecture is crucial for companies in highly-competing markets, where agility and flexibility of software systems become a critical asset to establish leadership.

While microservices are a solution for scalability, maintainability, and evolvability, they come at a cost: an increased complexity that calls for an improvement of the current techniques for software construction and advanced engineering practices.

The AMP workshop aims at collecting experiences on microservice adoption, reporting best practices, but also specially failure cases, so as to build community knowledge based on previous errors and successes. The workshop is open to experience reports from practitioners and academia. The fourth edition of AMP aims to continue the success of its previous editions in collecting original work on the science and engineering of programming microservices.

We seek to collect original work on the science and engineering of programming microservices which including but not limited to evolutive and agile architectures, methods and tools, patterns, operations practices and DevOps, agile teams, programming languages and techniques for microservices, software quality aspects, metrics and software analytics, verification, test-driven approaches and testing, architectural refactoring, empirical studies and experience reports on microservice adoption and teaching. The topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Using microservices to enable an evolutive and agile architecture.
  • Software engineering methods and tools for microservices.
  • Patterns for microservices design and development.
  • Operations practices for microservices and DevOps support.
  • Impact of microservices’ usage on agile teams and processes.
  • Programming languages and techniques for microservices.
  • Combining microservices with other architectural styles.
  • Achieving software qualities, e.g., security, maintainability, and deployability.
  • Metrics and software analytics in microservices architectures.
  • Verification of microservice architectures.
  • Test-driven approaches and testing in microservices development.
  • Refactoring in the context of microservices architectures.
  • Empirical studies on microservices.
  • Experience reports on microservice adoption and teaching.

Contributions and Evaluation

AMP2024 seeks original contributions of the following types (maximum length):

  • Full papers: research papers, industry experiences, or case studies (12 pages in LNCS format, incl. references, single-blinded).
  • Short papers: research papers, industry experiences, or case studies (8 pages in LNCS format, incl. references, single-blinded).
  • Extended Abstracts: tool presentations, position papers (2 pages, not part of the proceedings).

Papers should be formatted in Springer’s LNCS format and submitted through EasyChair.

In accordance with ICSOC 2024 publication guideline for workshops, accepted papers will be published in the post-proceedings.

How to submit

Contributions should be formatted in Springer LNCS format and submitted through EasyChair (link below) as a PDF file interpretable by common PDF tools and printable in black and white on A4 paper.