A Framework for Microservice Organizational Structure Optimization

With the soaring popularity of microservices, practitioners have realized that the key to success lies more in the management of people than in the architecture itself. Due to the systems’ inevitable evolution, the organization shifts towards such changes where a lack of proper optimization can result in dreadful efficiency, error proneness, and toxic collaboration environments. However, despite the criticality, limited studies have proposed concrete support for optimizing microservice organizational structure through system evolution. This short paper sketches the vision of a framework to facilitate the optimization of microservice organizational structure. With this work, we aim to attract the attention of the microservice community toward the benefits and issues of the microservice organizational structure and propose a promising direction to a continuous solution.