stream-MSA: A microservices’ methodology for the creation of short, fast-paced, stream processing pipelines

Broad deployment of IoT solutions has resulted in the emergence of a large number of applications that generate value from processing the resulting high-frequency data streams. To meet the temporal requirements of those arbitrary simple applications, practitioners commonly employ monolithic approaches. However, the need for low cost and reusable solutions have rendered those approaches obsolete. This paper addresses this issue by discussing how microservice architectures (MSA) can deliver robust and low-cost solutions to manage the data load and real-time requirements. The motivation is to provide a methodology (stream-MSA) that will enable the easy and effective migration of suchlike applications to an MSA approach.