Call For Papers

In the last years, cloud-native architectures have emerged as a target platform for the deployment of microservice architectures. The migration of existing monoliths into cloud-native applications is still in the early phase, and only few companies already started their migrations. Therefore, success and failure stories about different approaches are not available in the literature. This context connects also to the recently discussed DevOps context where development and continuous deployment are closely linked.

To address the current uncertainties including a limited documentation of best-practice and benefits, this workshop aims at collecting experiences on microservice adoption, reporting best practices, but also specially failure cases, so as to build a community knowledge based on previous errors and successes. The workshop is open to experience reports from practitioners and academia.

In this workshop, we propose a follow-up of the first International Workshop on Microservices for Agile software development (WMSA17) organized at XP2017. It is also a continuation of discussions on software engineering from the first International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2017, http://conf-micro.services/ ) organized at the University of Southern Denmark. The workshop will be conducted in collaboration with the Microservices Community (http://microservices.sdu.dk/), which was formed at the Microservices 2017 conference.

The topics include:

Empirical research on microservices
Experiences on microservice adoption
Experience on decomposition
Overhead in microservice adoption
Failure cases
Experiences in using DevOps and microservices
Developers acceptance of microservice
Other microservice related experiences
New proposals
New microservice methods, techniques and tools

Contributions

MADE18 seeks original contributions of the following types (maximum length):

Full research papers (6-8 pages)
Industry experiences & case studies (4-6 pages)
Tool presentations (2 pages)
Position papers (2 pages)
Lightning talks (1 page abstract)

Important Dates

Submissions are due: ~~March 3, 2018~~ - Extended: March 10. 2018
Notification of acceptance: ~~March 23, 2018~~ - Extended: April 06. 2018
Camera ready due: ~~April 13, 2018~~ - Extended: April 20. 2018
Workshop date: May 21, 2018

How to submit

Papers should be formatted in Springer LNBIP format submitted through EasyChair.

Selected papers will be published in the XP2018 workshop proceedings published by Springer LNBIP.

For further details, refer to the workshop website and for any further queries, please contact Davide Taibi (davide.taibi@unibz.it).