Arquitectura de microservicios basada en contenedores para despliegue ágil de aplicaciones IoT en la nube

Diana Carolina Decimavilla-Alarcón; Pedro Fernando Marcillo-Franco

Authors

Diana Carolina Decimavilla-Alarcón Instituto Superior Tecnológico Vicente Rocafuerte. Ecuador. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0375-0216
Pedro Fernando Marcillo-Franco Instituto Superior Tecnológico Vicente Rocafuerte. Ecuador. https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1408-1094

Keywords:

Microservices, IoT, container architectures, digital transformation, cloud computing

Abstract

The research explores the transformation of container-based microservices architectures for agile deployment of IoT applications in the cloud, addressing scalability, flexibility, and computational efficiency challenges, the study reveals a growing trend towards these architectures, with a 45% increase in publications between 2019 and 2024, the methodology integrated a systematic literature review, comparative strategy analysis, and multiple case studies across various industrial sectors, results demonstrate significant reductions in operational costs between 30% and 60% compared to traditional monolithic architectures, three main strategies were identified: lightweight microservices, dynamic elastic scaling, and service isolation. Experimental findings showed substantial improvements: 40% reduction in communication latency, 55% improvement in horizontal scalability, and 35% optimization in energy efficiency, the developed reference framework highlights design patterns for IoT microservices architectures, characterized by service decoupling, asynchronous communication, fault tolerance, and horizontal scalability, the research concludes that these architectures represent a fundamental evolution in IoT application development, facilitating continuous innovation, adaptability, and agile response to changing digital market demands.

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