[2207.02974] Microvision: Static analysis-based approach to visualizing microservices in augmented reality

Microservices are supporting digital transformation; however, fundamental
tools and system perspectives are missing to better observe, understand, and
manage these systems, their properties, and their dependencies. Microservices
architecture leans toward decentralization, which yields many advantages to
system operation; it, however, brings challenges to their development.
Microservices lack a system-centric perspective to better cope with system
evolution and quality assessment. In this work, we explore
microservice-specific architecture reconstruction based on static analysis.
Such reconstruction typically results in system models to visualize selected
system-centric perspectives. Conventional models are limited in utility when
the service cardinality is high. We consider an alternative data visualization
using 3D space using augmented reality. To begin testing the feasibility of
deriving such perspectives from microservice systems, we developed and
implemented prototype tools for software architecture reconstruction and
visualization of compared perspectives.