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type: software
title: "Cloud-Native Microservices Architecture for Scalable Web Applications"
version: 1.0.0
date-released: 2026-07-12
authors:
  - family-names: "Muzzammil"
    given-names: "Sakina"
    email: "sakinamuzzammil@gmail.com"
repository-code: "https://github.com/SakinaMuzzammil/cloud_native_microservices_architecture"
license: MIT
abstract: >
  Reference implementation and empirical performance evaluation comparing a
  monolithic and a microservices architecture for the same application,
  including a working Node.js/Express codebase, Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform
  deployment configuration targeting AWS EKS, autocannon-based load-test
  benchmarks, and an IEEE-format paper reporting the results.
keywords:
  - microservices
  - cloud-native
  - kubernetes
  - docker
  - aws
  - performance-evaluation
  - software-architecture
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: "Cloud-Native Microservices Architecture for Scalable Web Applications: Design, Implementation, and Empirical Performance Evaluation"
  authors:
    - family-names: "Muzzammil"
      given-names: "Sakina"
  year: 2026