A Microservice-based Software Architecture for Improving the Availability of Dental Health Records

Q3 Computer Science International Journal of Computing Pub Date : 2022-12-31 DOI:10.47839/ijc.21.4.2783

Juan Arcila-Diaz, Carlos Valdivia

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In order to keep accessible, the patient care information recorded by a dental provider, a software architecture must be designed to allow availability among the different providers. In this research, a software architecture based on the Microservices approach is designed to enable the availability of dental medical records. The quality attributes and functional requirements were identified to design the architecture, determining that it should be composed of 4 Microservices, Patient, Dental Medical Record, Odontogram and Dental Service Provider; each microservice implements its database, the secure communication between the microservices and the clients is done through an API Gateway of HTTP resources and an authentication token. To evaluate the software architecture, a prototype was developed in which each component was deployed in containers using the Microsoft Azure App Service. On this prototype load tests were performed to evaluate Availability and Performance determining that up to 21 dental records per second can be available with 100% availability, and if the demand of requests increases the architecture scales automatically.

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一种基于微服务的提高牙齿健康记录可用性的软件架构

为了保持牙科医生记录的病人护理信息的可访问性，必须设计一个软件架构，以允许不同医生之间的可用性。在本研究中，设计了一个基于微服务方法的软件架构，以实现牙科医疗记录的可用性。确定了质量属性和功能需求来设计体系结构，确定其应由4个微服务组成:患者、牙科医疗记录、牙床摄影和牙科服务提供者;每个微服务实现自己的数据库，微服务和客户端之间的安全通信是通过HTTP资源的API网关和身份验证令牌完成的。为了评估软件架构，开发了一个原型，其中每个组件都使用Microsoft Azure应用程序服务部署在容器中。在此原型上执行负载测试以评估可用性和性能，确定每秒最多可以提供21个牙科记录，并且可用性为100%，并且如果请求需求增加，则架构会自动扩展。

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Computing Journal was established in 2002 on the base of Branch Research Laboratory for Automated Systems and Networks, since 2005 it’s renamed as Research Institute of Intelligent Computer Systems. A goal of the Journal is to publish papers with the novel results in Computing Science and Computer Engineering and Information Technologies and Software Engineering and Information Systems within the Journal topics. The official language of the Journal is English; also papers abstracts in both Ukrainian and Russian languages are published there. The issues of the Journal are published quarterly. The Editorial Board consists of about 30 recognized worldwide scientists.