Scaling Network Traffic Logger with Microservice Architecture

Abstract

Over the past few years, many large organizations evolve their technology stack to Microservices, also known as the microservice architecture. Although the traditional monolithic architecture is still a good choice for many applications, it does have limitations in scalability. A change made to a small part of the application also requires the entire monolith to be rebuilt and deployed. This makes it harder to maintain a good modular structure over time. This paper thus presents a design of network traffic logger using the microservice architecture. Based on the scaling model, scale cube, each service can be individually scaled, with the result being that the application is scaled more efficiently. The preliminary study was carried out for performance evaluation. The results show that the microservice-based logger yields less query times on Radius log retrieval, compared to the monolithic.