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Publications by Pedro Miguel Moreira

2023

AGE: Automatic Performance Evaluation of API Gateways

Authors
Moreira, P; Ribeiro, A; Silva, JMC;

Publication
IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2023, Gammarth, Tunisia, July 9-12, 2023

Abstract
The increasing use of microservices architectures has been accompanied by the profusion of tools for their design and operation. One relevant tool is API Gateways, which work as a proxy for microservices, hiding their internal APIs, providing load balancing, and multiple encoding support. Particularly in cloud environments, where the inherent flexibility allows on-demand resource deployment, API Gateways play a key role in seeking quality of service. Although multiple solutions are currently available, a comparative performance assessment under real workloads to support selecting the more suitable one for a specific service is time-consuming. In this way, the present work introduces AGE, a service capable of automatically deploying multiple API Gateways scenarios and providing a simple comparative performance indicator for a defined workload and infrastructure. The designed proof of concept shows that AGE can speed up API Gateway deployment and testing in multiple environments. © 2023 IEEE.