SECURE MICROSERVICES - A REVIEW APPLYING THE THEORY OF THE CONSOLIDATED META-ANALYTIC APPROACH

The goal of this paper is to address the relevance of applying microservice based system architecture, with an emphasis on the challenges of implementing security in this model. Based on the impact this brought to the academic literature, an in-depth bibliographic analysis was performed using the Theory of the Consolidated Meta-Analytic Approach to trace inter-relationships between the studies already performed on security in microservices in order to identify trends, main authors, research centers, relevant papers and keywords.. From a base of 837 Scopus papers, some of the main facts found through the analysis of bibliographic metadata were that the authors of greatest influence are M. Fowler, S. Newman, R. Buyya, Y. Chen, P. Jamshidi, and Y. Zhang, the countries that published the most on the subject were China, USA, and Germany and that the subject is still on the rise in academic literature.