Microservices, also known as microservice architecture, is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of services that are maintainable and testable, loosely coupled, independently deployable, and organized around business capabilities.
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Towards Connected Government Services: A Cloud Software Engineering Framework
Muthu Ramachandran (School of Computing, Creative Technologies and Engineering, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK),
Pethuru Raj Chelliah (Reliance Jio Platforms Ltd, Bangalore, India), and P. Beaulah Soundarabai (Christ University (Deemed), Bangalore, India)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4570-6.ch006
Abstract
Cloud computing technologies are being used highly successfully in large-scale businesses. Therefore, it is useful for governments to adopt cloud-driven multi-channel, and multiple devices to offer their services such as e-tax, e-vote, e-health, etc. Since these applications require open, flexible, interoperable, collaborative, and integrated architecture, service-oriented architecture approach can be usefully adopted to achieve flexibility and multi-platform and multi-channel integration. However, its adoption needs to be systematic, secure, and privacy-driven. In this context, micro services architecture (MSA), a direct offshoot of SOA, is also a highly attractive mechanism for building and deploying enterprise-scale applications. This chapter proposes a systematic framework for cloud e-government services based on the cloud software engineering approach and suggests a cloud adoption model for e-government, leveraging the benefits of MSA patterns. The proposed model is based on a set of evaluated application characteristics that, in turn, support emerging IT-based technologies.