Hey, i want to write my master thesis soon and i am currently looking for a topic that i could focus on.
I am also working full-time, so it'd be optimal if i can combine work with the thesis. At work, we currently rewrite an application from scratch using microservices (it used to be a monolith).
So i am trying to find a topic in the microservices area.
I would like to focus on one specific aspect/challenge/problem of microservices.
I started looking into some topics:
- Observability (Logging, Metrics, ...)
- Service Discovery
- Service Orchestration
- Fault Tolerance
- Build/Deployment Automation
- Testing Automation
- Data Consistency
- (Inter-)Service Communication
- Self Adaption / Self Healing
- ...
I did not really dive deep into those topics yet, i am just trying to collect some papers and get a general overview.
My goal would be to find and focus on an area, that has multiple approaches and solutions, compare them and develop a guideline in which scenario each of those solutions would be best suited. Or some area thats actively beeing researched on or has "future work" left to do, that i could practically work on.
Does anyone have an idea, what topic could be interesting in regards to microservices? Preferably a problem, that has multiple approaches and not something where there is only one "solution", that basically everyone in the industry follows.
I highly appreciate any tips :)
Top comments (1)
Observability and Build/Deployment Automation are pretty big industry issues and would certainly make for an interesting thesis. Especially, if you are exploring performance alongside observability in microservices.