Developing A Multi Application Real-Time Platform Using Cloud Serverless Technologies

• Autor(a) principal: Marcondes, Gabriel Adorno
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/147763
• topic: cloud; monolithic applications; software architectures; microservices; Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática

Magycal Interactive is a software company that has produced a significant impact in the Portuguese television sector. Magycal is Magycal Interactive’s cloud based server-side framework that was developed to standardize common services (chats, polls, authentication) provided by applications such as Viva Ronaldo, Secret Story e SPORT TV Digital Hub. As popularity and success of each application increases, Magycal becomes more technically outdated. Its monolithic architecture, which previously allowed for easy development is becoming a development bottleneck. Scaling the server is increasing in cost as the platform grows, and developing updates and new features is more difficult since services are becoming more tightly coupled with each release. In this work, we propose an architectural shift for Magycal where we decouple services for better scalability, development and deployment. After a study of existing architectural options, we have concluded that the most suitable candidate architecture that meets the demands of Magycal is the microservices architecture. To test our hypothesis and determine the feasibility of the architectural change, we have selected a service of Magycal that was implemented following a microservice-oriented design. Our implementation was validated via API calls to ensure the modifications maintained correct behavior of the framework. The new service had its implementation benchmarked and compared to the corresponded Magycal existing service. We concluded that the changes to Magycal yield a more robust framework with reduced costs of maintaining, development and deployment.