Temporal Network Analysis of Microservice Architectural Degradation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11571v1
• Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:26:20 GMT
• Title: Temporal Network Analysis of Microservice Architectural Degradation
• Authors: Alexander Bakhtin,
• Abstract summary: temporal network analysis is a branch of Network Science that analyzes networks evolving with time.<n>In microservice systems, temporal networks can arise if we examine the architecture of the system across releases or monitor a deployed system using tracing.
• Score: 55.2480439325792
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Microservice architecture can be modeled as a network of microservices making calls to each other, commonly known as the service dependency graph. Network Science can provide methods to study such networks. In particular, temporal network analysis is a branch of Network Science that analyzes networks evolving with time. In microservice systems, temporal networks can arise if we examine the architecture of the system across releases or monitor a deployed system using tracing. In this research summary paper, I discuss the challenges in obtaining temporal networks from microservice systems and analyzing them with the temporal network methods. In particular, the most complete temporal network that we could obtain contains 7 time instances and 42 microservices, which limits the potential analysis that could be applied.

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