ASERG Receives Best Paper Award at SBES 2025 for Microservices Granularity Research

The Applied Software Engineering Research Group (ASERG) is proud to announce that its members have received the Best Paper Award at the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES) 2025, part of the CBSoft conference series. The award-winning paper, titled “Continuously Managing Microservice Granularity: An Evidence-Based Industrial Approach” was recognised for its outstanding contribution to advancing microservices architecture in industrial contexts.

The awarded paper is part of Yan Justino’s doctoral journey, in collaboration with Carlos Eduardo da Silva and Rafael Duarte from CESAR. It combines theory and practice introducing a dynamic, evidence-based framework for managing microservice granularity in industrial systems, offering a practical solution to a long-standing challenge in scalable software design. By integrating empirical data from real-world applications, the research proposes a continuous management strategy that adapts service boundaries based on operational metrics and evolving system requirements. The approach has demonstrated significant potential to improve maintainability, performance, and scalability in complex software environments.

“This recognition reinforces the importance of bridging the gap between research and practice, demonstrating how evidence-based methods can have real impacts on software evolution, maintenance, and modularity.”

For more information about ASERG and their research initiatives, visit https://aserg.org. Details about SBES 2025 are available at https://cbsoft.sbc.org.br/2025/sbes.