Usporedba i automatizirano skaliranje monolitnih i mikroservisnih web aplikacija pod velikim opterećenjem

master's thesis

• Title (english): Comparison and Automated Scaling of Monolithic and Micro-service Web Applications under High Load
• Author: Matija Kurek
• Mentor: Ljiljana Brkić (mentor)
• Committee member: Ljiljana Brkić (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Igor Mekterović (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Boris Milašinović (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2019-02-18, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: TECHNICAL SCIENCES; Computing

Abstract

U okviru rada predstavljene su i uspoređene dvije dominantno korištene arhitekture za izradu web aplikacija: monolitna i mikroservisna arhitektura. Dan je opis značajki jedne i druge arhitekture zajedno s prednostima i nedostacima koje donosi njihova primjena. Na primjeru izrade pokazne aplikacije za upravljanje uslugama taksi službe usporedno je detaljno pokazano kako se zadane funkcionalnosti mogu implementirati korištenjem monolitne i mikroservisne arhitekture. Nad izgrađenim aplikacijama provedeno je opsežno performansno testiranje u svrhu usporedbe njihovih karakteristika i sposobnosti rada pod velikim opterećenjem. Dobivenim rezultatima je utvrđeno kako su sveukupne performansne karakteristike na sličnoj razini za obje verzije aplikacija uz minimalnu prednost aplikacije izgrađene u mikroservisnoj arhitekturi. Istovremeno su u unutarnjoj strukturi dobivenih rezultata uočene značajne razlike koje pokazuju da za pojedine vrste zahtjeva mikroservisna aplikacija postiže značajno bolje rezultate od monolitne. Dodatno, prikazane su i mogućnosti skaliranja obje izvedbe aplikacije te je potvrđeno da je za skaliranje mnogo učinkovitija mikroservisna arhitektura.

Abstract (english)

This paper describes and compares two dominantly used architectural styles for web application design: monolithic and microservice architecture. A description of characteristic was presented for both architectures, altogether with advantages and disadvantages which their usage implies. By using the example of developing a demonstration application for taxi service management, it was presented in details the way of implementing required features using both monolithic and microservice architecture. Extensive performance testing has been carried out over the developed applications for the purpose of comparing their characteristics and ability to work under high loads. The results obtained were found to indicate that overall performance characteristics are at the similar level for both versions of the application, with the minimal advantage for the application developed in the microservice architecture. At the same time significant differences were noticed in the internal structure of the obtained results indicating that for the particular types of requests the microservice application achieves significantly better results compared to monolithic. The scalability of both applications is also demonstrated, confirming that microservice architectural style possesses significantly larger scalability potential.

• Keywords: web aplikacije; monolitna arhitektura; mikroservisna arhitektura; performansna usporedba; performansno testiranje; skaliranje; mikroservisi; Spring; Spring Boot; Apache Tomcat; Eureka; Zuul; Apache Kafka; Apache JMeter
• Keywords (english): web applications; monolith architecture; microservice architecture; performance comparison; performance testing; scalability; microservices; Spring; Spring Boot; Apache Tomcat; Eureka; Zuul; Apache Kafka; Apache JMeter
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:168:629745
• Study programme: Title: Computing; Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra inženjer/inženjerka računarstva (magistar/magistra inženjer/inženjerka računarstva)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Closed access
• Created on: 2019-03-13 22:07:39