Proposal for Optimizing the Design of the National University of La Plata Service Cloud

Abstract

One of the great difficulties facing the informatic systems development team of the Department of Development of the CeSPI of the National University of La Plata (UNLP) is the use and maintenance of the service cloud. This issue triggered a theoretical-practical analysis of the state of the art around service oriented architectures and a proposal for a new design for the service cloud. A real use case was implemented from this design proposal, as well as a reduced cloud architecture, which included everything from a Gateway API routing the incoming requests to services organized according to the guidelines of the microservices pattern. This approach encourages the decoupling for the architecture components, simplifying its development, maintenance, deployment and scalability. This paper presents the advances achieved in the redesign of the UNLP service cloud and a case study implemented on it.