Title: Recursive redundancy zoning for highly available microservices architecture

Authors: Kindson Munonye; Martinek Péter

Addresses: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, 1111, Hungary ' Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, 1111, Hungary

Abstract: This paper aims to advance high availability in microservices by a novel approach called recursive redundancy zoning (RRZ). This research adopted an integrated approach to high availability by enhancing the chain oriented load balancing method. It adopts a combination of redundancy nesting and containerisation to ensure early fault detection and isolation. An empirical and concrete insight is provided in this research that indicated that the RRZ approach provides the best performance in terms of response time, load balancing and scalability. Comparison of this novel approach with existing approaches shows an improvement in availability. Since the experimental tests and evaluations carried out was based on a simulated environment, further research is ongoing to evaluate the performance of the RRZ approach in enterprise cloud environment. This research with further refinements could be a standard for design of mission critical information systems that require a high level of stability under unreliable load conditions.

Keywords: microservices; high availability; redundancy; nested redundancy; spring cloud; containerisation; recursive redundancy zoning; RRZ; load balancing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2022.10045506

International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 2022 Vol.18 No.2, pp.141 - 167

Accepted: 16 Nov 2021
Published online: 07 Apr 2022 *

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