Refactoring Towards Microservices: Preparing the Ground for Service Extraction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03050v1
• Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:33:06 GMT
• Title: Refactoring Towards Microservices: Preparing the Ground for Service Extraction
• Abstract summary: This article introduces a catalogue of sevens specifically designed to support the transition to a architecture with a focus on handling dependencies.<n>The catalogue provides developers with a systematic guide that consolidates identified in the literature and addresses the critical gap in systematizing the process at the code level.
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• Abstract: As organizations increasingly transition from monolithic systems to microservices, they aim to achieve higher availability, automatic scaling, simplified infrastructure management, enhanced collaboration, and streamlined deployments. However, this migration process remains largely manual and labour-intensive. While existing literature offers various strategies for decomposing monoliths, these approaches primarily focus on architecture-level guidance, often overlooking the code-level challenges and dependencies that developers must address during the migration. This article introduces a catalogue of seven refactorings specifically designed to support the transition to a microservices architecture with a focus on handling dependencies. The catalogue provides developers with a systematic guide that consolidates refactorings identified in the literature and addresses the critical gap in systematizing the process at the code level. By offering a structured, step-by-step approach, this work simplifies the migration process and lays the groundwork for its potential automation, empowering developers to implement these changes efficiently and effectively.

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