TY - GEN
T1 - Achieving Energy Efficiency in Microservice-Based Cloud Applications
T2 - 51st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2025
AU - Perdigão Batista, César
AU - Barros, Glauber
AU - Batista, Thais
AU - Chabridon, Sophie
AU - Conan, Denis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2026.
PY - 2026/1/1
Y1 - 2026/1/1
N2 - The growth of Cloud computing has enabled scalable and accessible services, while also intensifying concerns over energy consumption, carbon emissions, and both the environmental and financial sustainability of data centers. Microservice architectures offer promising opportunities for granular resource optimization and energy savings, though it can also introduce complexities. It is crucial to investigate how microservice-based Cloud applications address energy efficiency. For this purpose, we conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) aiming to establish an overview of the state-of-the-art on energy-efficient microservice-based Cloud applications. The research questions of the SLR focus on revealing: (i) strategies to mitigate energy inefficiencies in microservice-based Cloud applications; (ii) experimental methodologies used to assess the effectiveness of the proposed strategy, and (iii) mechanisms for measuring energy consumption. As a result, 25 studies were selected and synthesized to provide a comprehensive overview about the topic. This paper also presents a taxonomy and raises important challenges and potential directions for future research.
AB - The growth of Cloud computing has enabled scalable and accessible services, while also intensifying concerns over energy consumption, carbon emissions, and both the environmental and financial sustainability of data centers. Microservice architectures offer promising opportunities for granular resource optimization and energy savings, though it can also introduce complexities. It is crucial to investigate how microservice-based Cloud applications address energy efficiency. For this purpose, we conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) aiming to establish an overview of the state-of-the-art on energy-efficient microservice-based Cloud applications. The research questions of the SLR focus on revealing: (i) strategies to mitigate energy inefficiencies in microservice-based Cloud applications; (ii) experimental methodologies used to assess the effectiveness of the proposed strategy, and (iii) mechanisms for measuring energy consumption. As a result, 25 studies were selected and synthesized to provide a comprehensive overview about the topic. This paper also presents a taxonomy and raises important challenges and potential directions for future research.
KW - Cloud Applications
KW - Energy Efficiency
KW - Microservices
KW - Systematic Literature Review
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105016596950
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-032-04200-2_28
DO - 10.1007/978-3-032-04200-2_28
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105016596950
SN - 9783032041999
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 405
EP - 424
BT - Software Engineering and Advanced Applications - 51st Euromicro Conference, SEAA 2025, Proceedings
A2 - Taibi, Davide
A2 - Smite, Darja
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 10 September 2025 through 12 September 2025
ER -
