Microservice decomposition strategy of monolithic applications

US11416243B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Jinho Hwang · Ossining, US
• Anup Kalia · Elmsford, US
• Jin Xiao · Ossining, US
• Malik Jackson · Baltimore, US
• Maja Vukovic · New York, US
• John Rofrano · Mahopac, US
• Senthil Kumar Kumarasamy Mani · New Delhi, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 23, 2020
• Grant date: Aug 16, 2022
• Expiry date: May 1, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L41/40
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems and techniques that facilitate automated recommendation of microservice decomposition strategies for monolithic applications are provided. In various embodiments, a community detection component can detect a disjoint code cluster in a monolithic application based on a code property graph characterizing the monolithic application. In various aspects, the code property graph can be based on a temporal code evolution of the monolithic application. In various embodiments, a topic modeling component can identify a functional purpose of the disjoint code cluster based on a business document corpus corresponding to the monolithic application. In various embodiments, a microservices component can recommend a microservice to replace the disjoint code cluster based on the functional purpose.