Microservice architecture in industrial software delivery on edge devices
Fei Li, Lars Gelbke · 2018
Production in Industry 4.0 calls for flexible configurations, customizable features, frequent changes, and above all, short time to market, which poses significant challenges to the practices of industrial software development and delivery. However, under strict regulations and non-negotiable requirements on safety, reliability and compliance, industrial software is still dominated by monolithic architecture that usually requires planned downtime and manual installation for each update. The result is a typical release cycle of 12-18 months with several patches during the release cycle.